Could Samoans Posthumously Sue Margaret Mead?
These stories linked to today by Arts & Letters Daily have me smiling — Research Subjects Sue Jared Diamond, the Author and Professor, for $10-Million and New Guinea Tribe Sues The 'New Yorker' For $10 Million.
"When foreigners come to our culture, we tell stories as entertainment," says the legal advisor to one of the plaintiffs. This is exactly how one of the most sinister books of modernity came about — The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research.
"When foreigners come to our culture, we tell stories as entertainment," says the legal advisor to one of the plaintiffs. This is exactly how one of the most sinister books of modernity came about — The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research.
Labels: Modernist Tomfoolery, The Pacific, The Written Word
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