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Meanwhile, shuttle driver Joseph Freeman '86 relaxes inside Currier Hose, watching a David Letterman rerun. When Letterman finishes his interview with Mr. T. Freeman glances at his watch, and heads out for his final run of the night...
...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...
...full-fledged Samoan, I am glad that Derek Freeman showed the other side of the coin. Samoans not only condone free love and have no guilt but are also jealous and violent...