...Reproduced Without Proper Attribution to as a Source , research writer, mother and friend. A Critical Analysis: "Growing Up in New Guinea" by Margaret Mead: B Jeff Kimball, , November 1998 Margaret Mead takes us on a journey in "Growing Up in New Guinea." Her study in 1928-1929 of the Manus children of the Admiralty Islands of New Guinea was indeed a journey to another world, even back in 1930 when the book was published. Not only does Mead triumph in the scientific world as a result of her brilliant research on the social development of the Manus children, but she also succeeds in creating a book that conveys the primitive beauty of the entire Manus culture....