Tales From The Jungle: Margaret Mead - Part 4 of 6

[Andrew19ao]

"no Amoan that is not part of a religious community".

That is horrible!

[islanderws]

I'm a Samoan who grew up and lived on the island for over 30yrs. Reading Margaret's book and what she did was good for anthropology but a great misunderstanding and misrepresentation of our culture. What Dr. Faanaafi Le Tagaloa said was soo true. Margaret brought her American ideas and believes and used Samoa as a frame for her theory. All based on a lie from a few teenage girls. Thanks to Dr Freeman! You have to live, speak and be part of a culture in order to find the truth.

[AndallthatRush]

@islanderws so just curious...your culture is nothing like Mead reported? Was it a "myth"...you make sense..just curious, because I do think its odd...she only studied like a select few of Samoan people.

[manusamoa2009]

Mead look focus with physical apparence idea but not inpersonal features,she didn't interpret the real nature of samoan culture,she doing something very unlikely in samoan people,you never meet with other societies by free of love and hospitaility people unless samoa,which means samoan people firstly say welcome a visitor by smile, pleasure and harmony,but not include in mead romantic idea,

[Featheredman2009]

For Anthropologists they both generalize quite a bit. He observed management, she observed growing up - 2 perspectives. 2 fame seekers

[corban227]

freeman 1

mead  0

besides i don't see any video games out there who's main character is mead.

[AudreyBoston]

Well, Freeman would have access to men in Samoan society, but Mead was a woman who would have a different access. Men wait to dethrone women of power, and then undermine them and try to erase them after they are dead. It's a pattern of male supremacy throughout the ages.

[Twirble]

First off, when the talk about the Mead quote about "Perfect adjustment" why is no mention made of the question mark after that quote?

Also I never got the idea while reading her book that she was discussing anything but that one culture in Samoa.

[AsbestosLLJK]

I am not a great of Freeman ... but Freeman had tried to publish even before Mead's death, but was hindered.

It was not because he wanted to wait until after her death.

Objectivity, BBC... Objectivity...

[HoneySmurf]

Ha!

Thanx 4 pointing that out.

[somor98]

Go Freeman!!

[ludivene]

girl that plays margaret mead is my best friend liz teirney she lives in auckland new zealand she is one very cool chick, beutifull, funny, and very smart.

so if you have a part in a movie or play you would like her to do look her up.

please no smutty comments, she really is a cool chick.

[prettypatty21]

ask any Samoan about Margaret Mead and we all say that she got it really wrong, anyone whose grown up there knows that our culture teaches respect at any cost, especially chastity!!! Samoa has one of the highest suicide rates among adolescent males in the world, sound like a perfect adjustment? its hard for some to accept but her research had gaps all through it and derek freeman just exposed it. its funny Samoans always knew she was wrong but no one listened till a white man wrote a book lol

[sarscastic]

That's funny that they used Bjork's music at 1:40.

[sarscastic]

...and Massive Attack at 3:30

[jusitke07]

margaret mead is so leftist, and liberal in her ideas, that she tried to create a utopia of pure happiness that it caught on and manifested the hippies movement of pure love...very idealistic, and not in touch with reality. She even tried to become a worshiped anthropological guru for goodness sake.

[eskimoplanecrash]

wow, as if that Margaret was some kind of Jesus! Freeman did just the thing he was supposed to, bring science further. What a weak movie, it's like some kind of worship

[Roubiere]

Note in Part 3 much time and music was spent making Freeman seem some force of evil, and he's represented as a calculating Iago. The documentors fail to understand that academia, especially in the sciences, works this way: if you find someone has erred in published work, you correct it; then out of intellectual integrity the mistaken conclusion is withdrawn. It's even a duty for academics. Freeman did right.

[tribe1]

i told you. she didnt see the dad throw the coconut. but freeman did..lol...

[5191132]

Hail Freeman, bringer of the truth.

[tribe1]

who are you siteing with mead or freemon??

you cant be sitting on the fence uce. cuz or blood you cant be both. mead and freemond's point of view differs from eachother so much you cant be agreeing with both...

[5191132]

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[5191132]

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[tribe1]

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