Coming of Age in Samoa – Savage Minds / Notes and Queries in Anthropology Sun, 24 Dec 2017 01:44:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 Coming of Age in Samoa, open access /2014/04/29/coming-of-age-in-samoa-open-access/ /2014/04/29/coming-of-age-in-samoa-open-access/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:37:06 +0000 /?p=10894 Continue reading Coming of Age in Samoa, open access →]]> In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa with William Morrow & Company. She did not copyright her book, possibly because copyright was only a few years old in the US and the idea had still not sunk in. However, when it became clear that the book would be a consistent earner, she did copyright it, and it has been locked up tight since then.

Luckily, the good folks are archive.org have a scan of the original 1928 edition without a copyright mark. I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that this text is essentially now free for all, provided you use and circulate this edition.

Image of the original edition, from Wikimedia.
Image of the original edition, from Wikimedia.

This is just one example of the many, many important works of anthropology that are legally available for circulation, but which people haven’t located, or done due diligence to make sure that the pieces truly are open access.

So when was the last time you actually sat down and read Coming of Age in Samoa? Why not download it today and try a chapter or two?

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