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American Samoa History
American Samoa consists of several
islands in the eastern portion of the Samoan archipeligo.
The Samoan islands were first settled by immigrants from the Lau Islands in
Fiji,
approximately 3,500 years ago.
Contact with Europeans began in the early 18th century, and by the
mid 19th century,
Great Britain,
Germany,
and the United States of America,
had all established trading posts and were all claiming parts of the islands.
The 1899 Treaty of Berlin divided the Samoan islands between
Germany,
and the United States of America,
and U.S. Navy subsequently established a coaling station at
Pago Pago Bay.
During World War I, the German part of the islands, was captured by
New Zealand and became a New Zealand protectorate. After World War I,
a peaceful independence movement, the Mau movement, emerged in both
the New Zealand (Western Samoa) and American parts of the islands, but
was unsuccessful.
In World War II, American Samoa was an important military base, and U.S.
Marines outnumbered the local population, and left a huge cultural
influence.
Subsequent to World II, the U.S. Department of Interior sponsored an attempt
to incorporate American Samoa into the United States. This attempt was
however defeated in Congress, prinicipally due to the efforts of American
Samoan chiefs. The chiefs' efforts eventually led to the creation of
local legislature
which meets in the village of
Fagatogo.
Additionally, the Governor of the American Samoa is no longer appointed by
the U.S. Navy, but is instead locally elected.
As of today, American Samoa, remains an unorganized unincorporated territory
of the United States. Although technically unorganized, American Samoa is
self-governing under its constitution which became effective on
July 1st
1967.
By Margaret Mead
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By Derek Freeman
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Click Here | Amazon.com: Margaret Mead's 1928 Coming of Age in Samoa, a report of her anthropological study of adolescent girls and a triumph of cultural relativism, firmly established her as a guiding voice of anthropology. Her work was mostly unquestioned during her lifetime, but in 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman released a critical review of her work, showing that her assertion that adolescence in Samoa is easier because of free sexuality (upon which she based her nurture-over-nature theories) is in conflict with the facts of Samoan life and even with her own field notes. He suffered insult and approbation from nearly every member of the scientific establishment, to whom Mead was a hero and a saint, but he has rejoined the fray, perhaps to finish it, with The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead. This scholarly review examines all of the primary sources related to Mead's fieldwork and the important 1987 recanting of one of her informers. Forcefully written and carefully constructed, Freeman's book shows that Mead's stay in Samoa was too brief and too consumed with a much larger ethnographic project to have accumulated much data on adolescent sexuality. Her need to finish the project and her fervent belief in culturalism then led her to accept the joking references of her two closest informers about free sex as truth. Careful to make it clear that his focus is on Mead's science, Freeman shows that it is extremely unlikely that Mead deliberately falsified her report, simply that her preconceptions blinded her to inconvenient facts. Given the impressive evidence arrayed here, it's hard to see how Mead's work in Samoa can be now viewed as anything but a pretty fable. --Rob Lightner |
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By Frederic Koehler Sutter
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By J A C GRAY
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By Michael J. Field
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By Captain J. A. C. Gray
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By Frederic Koehler Sutter
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By Katherine Kristen
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