On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> However, keeping in mind that some of my Native relatives have had fun over
> the years telling anthropologists and psychologists "stories" about some of
> our traditions that aren't fully true......some things just aren't meant to
> be shared under certain circumstances.
Now that's interesting. There's a current controversy concerning
Margaret Mead's work, and apparently a claim that at least some of
what she put into Coming of Age in Samoa was a joke perpetuated on her
by her interviewees.
I have sources, somewhere.
-Stephen
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