margaret mead & her depiction of samoan girls. “[a samoan girl] sat cross- legged on the...
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Margaret Mead
&her
depiction of
Samoan girls
“[A Samoan girl] sat cross-legged on the ground, and to sit upon a chair made her stiff and miserable. She ate with her fingers from a woven plate; she slept upon the floor. Her house was a mere circle of pillars, roofed by a cone of thatch, carpeted with water-worn coral fragments.”
- Margaret Mead in Coming of Age in Samoa, p. 7
As an outsider looking in, Mead reinforced her imagined community of Indo-
European culture and created an imagined nation-ness of Samoan girls.
During her fieldwork, Mead recorded the Samoan culture and took photos, all of which strengthen this former idea of defining national identity.
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