lirik lagu robert davidson - margaret mead in samoa
john tooby: despite the reputations of anthropologists of having discovered remarkable amounts of human variation, at an underlying level, if you go beneath the surface what you find is an enormous amount of uniformity in how people think and how people feel
steven pinker: one guideline is to look at what’s universal in human cultures. in much of the twentieth century we were told that for just about any trait there’s a culture out there somewherе in the south pacific, or in africa, where thеy do… everything’s the opposite to the way that it is here…probably beginning with margaret mead claiming that in samoa there was no anxiety or conflict over s~x
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margaret mead, samoa
nineteen twenty five
looking for an island paradise
hoping for free love to thrive
margaret mead: the way english speakers use the term human nature has very little to do with anything. i mean they simple invoke human nature to support any prejudice that they happen to have at the moment. so people say, well you believe in heredity don’t you? identical twins are alike, aren’t they? doesn’t that prove whatever they want to prove; you know, that white people are superior to black people, or that black people are superior to white people, or that people will always fight, will always have aggression ~ any of these things. now what one can say scientifically, what we can say is that human beings are capable of an incredible range of behaviour, and we probably haven’t tapped a tenth of it
margaret mead had an opponent in the anu professor derek freeman
derek freeman: margaret mead operated with a tabula rasa assumption; she said that human nature was the rawest of raw undifferentiated material, which is a total denial of our evolutionary past
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professor derek freeman
from anu to samoan chief
his mission: slay the dragon
debunking her for forty years
1983 he’s famous
anthtropology closes ranks
denouncing him in their meeting
doing science by show of hands
recorded song: samoa (ted lewis, 1929, sung by ann hennington – from the film is everybody happy)
once they sail into the bay
then they never sail away
from old samoa
h~llo, aloha!
it’s the port of missing men
’cause they won’t come home again
from old samoa!
they say the native girls wear dresses there
with leaves that are grown
i’ve never seen a sailor yet
who’ll leave them alone
once i heard a captain crack
as they danced around his shack
“i want some more of
some more of samoa!”
david williamson: margaret claimed to have found a paradise and claimed to have proved beyond doubt that any social ills were socially constructed. well, the findings basically didn’t amount to very much, she was only there for 8 months in total and 5 months on the island with her subjects and finally depended, as freeman’s evidence clearly shows, on the confidences of her two closest friends, fa’a pua’a and fofoa. all the tales they told margaret about abundant promiscuity were polynesian leg pulling
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one of margaret’s youthful friends
felt she had to make amends
and her name was fa’a pua’a
sixty years later she said “we had such fun
all our crazy stories – she believed every one
we just lied and lied and lied
we took margaret for a ride in
samoa, samoa, samoa”
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