SC - OT: Anthropology-OOP
Jenne Heise
jenne at mail.browser.net
Fri Mar 16 05:45:25 PST 2001
> 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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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise jenne at mail.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
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