tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post3654909460821907025..comments2023-11-02T11:32:38.324+00:00Comments on The Joy of Curmudgeonry: Not Three Thousand LeaguesDeogolwulfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-90120985251732117452009-03-31T07:33:00.000+01:002009-03-31T07:33:00.000+01:00The myth of the noble savage is indeed a beautiful...The myth of the noble savage is indeed a beautiful myth. But we should not confuse beauty with truth, or virtue.Thursdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13002311410445623799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-43492616980123991372009-03-30T16:11:00.000+01:002009-03-30T16:11:00.000+01:00"Is this a habit among social scientists?"More of ..."Is this a habit among social scientists?"<BR/><BR/>More of a hobby, I'd say.Deogolwulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-757376531960438902009-03-30T12:48:00.000+01:002009-03-30T12:48:00.000+01:00Is this a habit among social scientists? Didn't Le...Is this a habit among social scientists? Didn't Levi-Strauss publish work based on stays of a couple of weeks among people whose language he couldn't speak well?berenikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16917803593444075354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-69987660571792901112009-03-27T23:11:00.000+00:002009-03-27T23:11:00.000+00:00It would seem that she didn't bother to learn the ...It would seem that she didn't bother to learn the language in Samoa, gormlessly accepted the yarns she was spun by adolescent girls, and generally behaved in a naively uncritical manner. But she did get the sort of "results" that her research supervisor wanted. Derek Freeman blew the whistle; a useful bit of iconoclasm, eh?deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-47835465266120827562009-03-27T22:20:00.001+00:002009-03-27T22:20:00.001+00:00I cannot quite recall, but didn't Mead make up muc...I cannot quite recall, but didn't Mead make up much of her "data"? Perhaps I am spreading foul untruths. Then again, I cannot quite recall what she claimed about the noble unwashed. I should probably make the effort to find out.Deogolwulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-13168830832175388612009-03-27T21:30:00.000+00:002009-03-27T21:30:00.000+00:00"it is one that has often been found lurking not t..."it is one that has often been found lurking not three thousand leagues away from the minds of the civilised": and indeed the uncivilised. I cite Rousseau and Margaret Mead. Though perhaps Ms Mead was merely stupid rather than uncivilised.deariemenoreply@blogger.com