SC - non-member submission - Re: SC mashing favas (food mill styles)

[Michael Gunter]

> This is actually NOT a good example at all. Mead studied the Samoans BEFORE 
> thier culture was influenced by Christianity. The person who supposedly 
> 'refuted' her research studied them way after Christian influences had 
> destroyed their original culture and well  before they realized that they 
> could speak as freely as they did with Mead. I would venture to say that the 
> latter person's research is 'flawed' and not Mead's. I am always amazed when 
> I hear her research was flawed when, indeed, it is later researchers that 
> have the flawed data.

Does anyone have the citation or name or anything handy for the person who wrote the
paper refuting Mead?

BTW, has anyone read _A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary,
1785-1812_ by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich? It appears to refute some of our cherished myths
about the Early days of the US-- such as severe punishments for premarital sex, and
extremely high incidence of postnatal mortality in women.

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