SC - OT: Anthropology-OOP

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/15/01 9:47:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
HICKS_M at casa.gov.au writes:

<< The most infamous case is that of Margaret Mead and the Samoans >>

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.

Ras