Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA20115 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:57:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20000718105556.7827.qmail@nwcst276.netaddress.usa.net> Date: 18 Jul 00 11:55:56 BST From: Derek Gatherer <derek-gatherer@usa.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: Memes and sexuality X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM1.5A.01A) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Cote claims that Derek Freeman's interviewee apparently does not
correspond to anyone described in Mead's work, although Freeman presents
this interviewee as a cornerstone of Mead's work.
It is difficult to see how Cote can make this claim. The lady in question was
Fa'apua'a, who had previously been traced and interviewed, not by Freeman, but
by Unasa Va'a of the University of Samoa. Mead's diary records an interview
with Fa'apua'a on March 13, 1926. Freeman was introduced to Fa'apua'a by
Galea'i Poumele, the Samoan Secretary of Samoan Affairs, who had undertaken to
verify her identity.
If Cote is right, then not just Freeman but the researchers at the University
of Samoa and the Samoan government were all wrong. I think that such a
careful tracing of the individual by government and academics, independently
of Freeman, rules out any deliberate fraud in this case.
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