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Aaron Lynch wrote on Friday, July 14, 2000 12:59 PM:
> At 02:12 PM 7/14/00 +0100, Vincent Campbell wrote:
> >Isn't that one of the famous cases where the natives were
> playing tricks on
> >the investigators?
>
> Vincent,
>
> Do you have a reference, or can you recall any general information
> about your source?
I think he's referring to Margaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa",
where the natives basically made up everything they told the
credulous anthropologist. It only came out years later that the book
was basically worthless.
Joseph 1
http://www.goldenfuture.net/neohuman
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