Word: freeman
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...pleased that Anthropologist Derek Freeman has challenged Margaret Mead's work on Samoa [Feb. 14]. When I lived there in the early 1970s, I asked an elderly Samoan what he thought of Mead's book Coming of Age in Samoa. He replied that the only one who came of age in Samoa was Margaret Mead...
...take exception to Derek Freeman's attack on Margaret Mead. American Samoa, where Mead visited, and Western Samoa, where Freeman taught, are two different groups of islands. American Samoa is smaller and has all the advantages of being politically linked with the U.S. Western Samoa is an independent Third World country that was once under the control of New Zealand. Perhaps Freeman's work could stand by itself as an updated report on Mead's Samoa. After all, he is publishing his study almost 60 years after Mead did her research. Changes do occur in that many...
...former Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa, I find it as difficult to agree with Derek Freeman's narrow analysis of the Samoan culture as I did with Margaret Mead's. As Anthropologist Bradd Shore accurately pointed out, Samoans can lead contradictory lives. Moreover, they are very adept at telling people what they wish to hear, saying one thing and doing another...
Laurence N. Freeman Houston...
Earl Baker, 19, Steven Booker, 19, and Anthony Freeman, 18, all drowned while in custody of three county deputies. They had been arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession at the annual "Juneteenth" public festival (commemorating June 19, 1865, when slaves in Texas first heard they had been freed). While the officers were ferrying the youths across Lake Mexia, the small boat capsized 80 feet from shore. The deputies swam to safety, which was impossible for their handcuffed captives. The Dallas Medical Examiner found that none of the suspects had any traces of marijuana in their bodies. The deputies were acquitted...