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Oddly enough, in Margaret Mead's case, that seems to mean lying to the world about Samoan promiscuity to rationalize her own adultery (implying that in the "sta
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
Oddly enough, in Margaret Mead's case, that seems to mean lying to the world about Samoan promiscuity to rationalize her own adultery (implying that in the "state of nature", whatever that means, it's no big deal), thus contributing in her own way to the groundwork for the disaster that was the sexual revolution.
- clove 4y agoI've never heard of this. Can you give me the TL;DR?
- consilient 4y agoComing of Age in Samoa is controversial but the claim that Mead was actively lying is pretty untenable. The main point of contention is that some of Mead's subjects, 40 years and a conversion to Christianity later, denied having had casual sex as young women and claimed that they were playing a practical joke on her. Whether they were telling the truth then and if so to what extent they're representative of Mead's other subjects is a thorny issue, to say the least.