Margaret Mead (1901-1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa at the age of twenty-three, which led to her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa. She went on to become one of the most influential women of our time, publishing some forty works and serving as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History as well as president of major scientific associations. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom following her death in 1978.
L’uomo mundugumor ha un’unica moglie ma la tratta come se ne avesse molte altre. L’uomo arapesh ha più mogli ma tratta ognuna come se fosse l’unica. I manus, monogami puritani circondati da poligami, credono che nel mondo ci sia carenza di donne; perciò non soltanto fidanzano i figli...
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