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book and media reviews of time, and having various kinds of relationships with Samoan women, as a growing mixed European /Samoan population attested. The written record, as important as it is for an analysis of first contacts, may not reflect the actual diversity of these relationships. Tcherkézoff concludes that there has been a major misunderstanding of European-Samoan sexual encounters stemming back to first contacts almost three centuries ago. As a result, he sides with Derek Freeman in his critique of Margaret Mead on the issue of Samoan sexuality. He believes that Freeman was correct in asserting that Samoans were sexually restrictive rather than sexually permissive. However, Tcherkézoff does not agree with Freeman's theoretical position, which he labels "quasi-sociobiology." He notes that one can agree with Freeman's ethnographic observations without embracing his theory, and that one can disagree with Freeman theoretically without embracing Mead. Yet this book is not about Mead or Freeman, who are discussed only briefly, or the controversy itself. It is about the broader issue of how we understand Pacific pasts. And here Tcherkézoff has offered readers an important new interpretation of material that we thought we knew. This is not an easy book to read,
The Contemporary Pacific – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jan 17, 2007
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