Innocent Killer
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  • Dr. Anderson is one of The Greatest Generation!
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Innocent Killer
Robert L. Anderson
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5 out of 5 stars Dr. Anderson is one of The Greatest Generation!.......2007-06-13

Dr. Anderson's vulnerable revelation of his growing up years both at home; in Swedish Kingsburg and on the battle field allowed those of us with WW II veteran father's to understand the "Greatest Generation" which made it clear that many returning Veterans refused to or couldn't talk about their war experiences and knowing that made my father's unwillingness to talk about the war and the pain he suffered more understandable...so when Dr. Anderson confronted his own hypocrisy (as a psychologist) in "Not Talking" about his pain and did so in his book...allowed me to empathize and understand my Dad's crippling emotional pain...the book was magnetizing and a very worthy read...thanks for the therapy!!! Michael Gish

5 out of 5 stars A powerful book.......2003-10-19

Bob Anderson has crafted a different war story. Each chapter provides a bayonet thrust punch accentuated by reflections of his idyllic childhood on a California ranch. "Innocent Killer" shines a penetrating light on the insanity of war and dispassionately describes both the incredible journey and harsh evolution of his survival

5 out of 5 stars Much Better Than A War Story.......2003-10-04

Most war stories are written in a boring historical manner or as an action story. This is wonderful emotional story by a writer in touch with his real feelings. This is a true story with much honesty. Easy reading & extremely engrosing. Loved it!
Innocent Killers
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  • Made me want to study these creatures!!!
  • Hyenas, jackals and wild dogs - oh my!
Innocent Killers
Hugo Van Lawick-Goodall , and Jane Van Lawick-Goodall
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5 out of 5 stars Made me want to study these creatures!!!.......2004-06-04

This book takes three social carnivores many people hate--African wild dogs, jackals and spotted hyenas--and tells their stories. Such a book is especially needed in the present day, when African wild dogs are endangered and spotted hyenas near threatened. van Lawick-Goodall and van Lawick-Goodall are world-class animal behavior scientists, and yes, they are Jane Goodall, the famous chimpanzee researcher, and her husband Hugo van Lawick, the wildlife photographer who captured the chimps on film. As in their general-audience works on chimpanzees, the text is lucid, entertaining and informative. The photographs, although black and white, are excellent.

The authors skillfully present these animals as individuals, with fascinating individual temperaments, and I found myself caring about them as they engaged in the drama of their lives. I also learned a lot about these three species, and wished I could have learned even more. As van Lawick-Goodall and van Lawick-Goodall focused their research more on chimpanzees, this book represents relatively few years of research and does not contain the most up to date information about these animals. The authors are much more familiar with their chimpanzees, having spent more than thirty years with the apes in contrast to the two or three years of research this book represents. Correspondingly, Goodall and van Lawick's chimpanzee books are better. However, this book is still excellent. I particularly liked the hyena section, because the social system of hyenas is unique, complete with female dominance, and extremely complicated. And no, hyenas and jackals are not really scavengers, but kill most of what they eat themselves.

Although wolves and lions have received much publicity as social carnivores, the three species featured in this book are perhaps even more interesting. There is a dearth of popular books about them, and _Innocent Killers_ is probably the best on the market. It is disappointing this book has not become more popular, because it is a gripping tale with unique protagonists.

5 out of 5 stars Hyenas, jackals and wild dogs - oh my!.......2003-01-29

Just so you know, Jane van Lawick-Goodall is more commonly known as Jane Goodall - yes, the one that works with chimpazees. Hugo van Lawick-Goodall was the photographer as well as her husband during the chimpazee studies.

This book manages to make 3 animals that most folks do not have a lot of love for and make them interesting reading. I don't particularly like hyenas and the description of how they eat their prey alive is unnerving but it is also fascinating. Hyenas (as well as jackals and wild dogs) kill their prey with a method known as rapid disembowelment. The prey dies very quickly as opposed to the methods lions (as well as cheetahs and leopards) use which is suffocation. Suffocation can take at least ten minutes if not longer to kill the prey. I won't presume to know which is the most painful way, but rapid disembowelment would seem more efficent from the predator's point of view.

They spend over two years studying spotted hyenas, golden jackals and wild dogs. The information about the social structure the animals participate in as well as their hunting methods are described in great detail. You don't have to be a zoologist or have specialized training to appreciate this book, but I think being an animal lover would be a great help.

One of the more interesting parts to me was when M's van Lawick-Goodall talks about taking her baby son along on this expedition. She details how she tried to make it as safe as possible for Grublin and how he grew up with the animals.

The black and white photographs are excellent. The bat eared foxes are quite photogenic, as well as the cheetah cubs at play.The pictures of the books subjects are equally good.

M's van Lawick-Goodall does an excellent great job giving the reader a different viewpoint of these much maligned animals. Read the book and learn all about these "innocent killers".
Innocent Killers: a Fascinating Journey Through the Worlds of the Hyena, the Jac
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    Hugo and Jane Van Lawick-Goodall
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    6 Titles in Kinsey Millhone Mysteries: G - L ; G is for Gumshoe - H is for Homicide - I is for Innocent - J is for Judgment - K is for Killer - L is for Lawless
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        The Animals Are Innocent: The Search for Julie's Killers
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            How to Make a Serial Killer: The Twisted Development of Innocent Children into the World's Most Sadistic Murderers
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              Christopher Berry-Dee , and Steven Morris
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              Innocent Gestures
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                Sharleen Cooper Cohen
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                FBI Agent Jack Barton is haunted by a former affair in France that threatens his marriage and career when he is summoned to Paris to search for a serial killer.
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                  Hugo & Jane Van Lawick-Goodall
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                  Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics)
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                  • This book is a LIE!!!!!!
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                  • Let's not be hasty
                  • Mead's Samoa hoax has been exposed
                  • read it for yourself
                  Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics)
                  Margaret Mead
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                  Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book.  When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.

                  Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa.   It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork.  Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations.  Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures.  The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive."  Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.

                  Customer Reviews:

                  1 out of 5 stars This book is a LIE!!!!!!.......2007-04-30

                  Please do not buy this book. It is a lie about Samoans. How could she have learned to speak well enough to comunicate with Samoans in 5 months.

                  watch "Margaret Mead and Samoa"

                  or read Derek Freeman's work against the book.

                  The book is all a lie!

                  1 out of 5 stars Somwhere between Freeman's vitriol and an ameteur' s efforts.......2007-04-19

                  I was the Medical Director of American Samoa a few years after Mead's six
                  month in Ta'u, a village in the Manu'a group and spent over two years there. On my trips to Manu'a I found and talked to Chief Tufele and those Mead worked with. With two years study of Hawaiian I was able to converse with them quite easily. Mead studied Samoan for only six weeks in Pago Pago.
                  There are many errors and self-projections in the work of a 23-year old girl fresh out of college on her first field trip, but not enough to incur
                  Freeman's wrath. About half of his criticisms are not true.

                  3 out of 5 stars Let's not be hasty.......2006-09-13

                  In answer to "Mead's Samoa hoax has been exposed" (see below), which is based largely upon Derek Freeman's work.

                  Derek Freeman's work has also engendered debate, given its own problems. Both methodology and (inevitably) conclusions have been shown to be suspect. For instance: some of Mead's subjects survived long enough into old age to be questioned by Freeman, whereupon they stated that they lied to Mead regarding their past behavior. With what certainty can it be presumed that they are telling the truth now?

                  But I shan't go on. Suffice it to say that it is of little use to base a critique of one book (Mead's) based upon another of equally unsound and uncertain scholarship (Freeman's). It is simply dishonest of the writer of that review to attempt to discredit Mead by quoting Freeman, while (conveniently) omitting to mention that Freeman's work is not accepted either.

                  Without being able to either substantiate Mead or debunk her, her book remains fascinating for its own sake, more than for its admittedly tenuous conclusions, and is interesting not least for the insight that it gives into the nature of its author.

                  1 out of 5 stars Mead's Samoa hoax has been exposed.......2006-02-23


                  In the unpaginated `Preface [to the] 1973 Edition', Margaret Mead stresses that her description of Samoan moeurs should be read as applying to conditions at the time of her research. She finds it needful to `shout' that advice because during her 1971 brief visit to Samoa, `young critics even asked me when am I going to revise this book and look unbelieving and angry when I say that to revise it is impossible'.

                  This is a reference to an abrasive session with students who told her that her description of fa'aSamoa (Samoan custom) was false and insulting. They were miffed by her styling Samoans `primitives' and her pronouncement that since anthropologists enjoy an `immense superiority', they can `master the fundamental structure' [of primitive society] . . . `in a few months' (p. 8). In keeping with this arrogance, Samoans attending university were told by their instructors that their experience of fa'aSamoa was not valid evidence against Mead's scientific study. And, as we've just seen, Mead refused to revise her book even when she knew that it is mistaken in many particulars.

                  For Samoans this patronizing manner was the familiar voice of the papalagi (the colonial power). Mead's hosts on her field trip, aware that she enjoyed the protection of the Pacific Fleet admiral and Boss of American Samoa, went to great lengths to provide reliable information. When they learned of what they call her luma fai tele (`shameless defamaton'), they could not comprehend how she could have betrayed their hospitality. They were also aggrieved that she deceived them about her marital status. For she accepted the title taupou (ceremonial virgin) although as a married woman she was ineligible. Then she disgraced the title by carrying on with Aviata, a young man regarded as a rake.

                  While Samoans long knew the mendacity of this book, its correction in academic circles commenced only with the 1983 publication of Derek Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth (Harvard University Press). That event shook anthropology to its boots. Such was Mead's prestige that the popular mind identified her with anthropology. If her credibility was seriously questioned in respect to the most widely believed anthropological study ever published, the credibility of the profession was at risk. That is why Freeman was attacked with great ferocity, even by those who agreed with his critique.

                  Freeman's book initiated a reappraisal of Coming of Age in Samoa. Martin Orans and Freeman have recently published studies of her Samoa investigations based on her field notes. They confirm that Mead's account of Samoan sexual moeurs is a travesty. But they go beyond that. Mead recorded the accounts given by her informants, but by ignoring key facts, twisting others, and inventing still others, she contrived to represent Samoa as a free love duck pond. She also misrepresented the research she carried out. She was funded to conduct a study of adolescent girls; and she states that she spent `six months accumulating an intimate and detailed knowledge of all adolescent girls in the community'. Her field notes tell otherwise. She devoted her time to assembling ethnography; the funded study never got off the ground. She states that she conducted `all' her interviews with these girls in the Samoan language (`I spoke their language and ate their food'). Orans found however that her information on adolescent girls came from `English-speaking informants using English to communicate'. He notes that `no conversations in Samoan are recorded in any of the field materials'. This is consistent with Freeman's finding that the study of adolescent girls was not conducted at all.

                  Mead built her picture of free love by tossing off unsupported one-liners. The `inept lover is a laughing stock'. There are `no neurotic pictures, no frigidity' in Samoa. Masturbation `is a universal habit'. Homosexual activity is `very prevalent' and is regarded as `simply play'. `[Samoan] girls' minds were perplexed by no conflicts . . . [to have as] many lovers as possible and then to marry . . . these were uniform and satisfying ambitions'. The field materials do not show that Mead collected any evidence whatever about masturbation, homosexuality, or incidence of neuroticism and frigidity. She had but one informant about intimate sexual moeurs--an eighteen year old school teacher. In 1981 that person told Freeman that he had an affair with Margaret. Thus Samoa's alleged free love amounts to no more than a loose wife's gullibility to the pillow talk of her teenage lover. Such is the `science' that made this book famous.

                  Research on Mead's field notes clarifies a feature of this book that has puzzled many readers. It is the drastic and repeated inconsistency between Mead's descriptions of Samoan vigilance of virginity and punishments of straying girls, and the attribution of a casual attitude toward sexuality. What we now can see is that Mead patched her free love pillow talk into descriptions given to her by her adult informants.

                  How is that anthropologists for so long were taken in by a popular book? One part of the answer is that many weren't taken in. The controversy brought to light numerous statements to this effect. Thus Weston LaBarre wrote: "When I was a graduate student in anthropology at Yale in the late '30's, Mead's Sex and Temperament came out. Puzzled that even a big island like New Guinea should have had three tribes waiting to be discovered to prove her point about the non-biological nature of gender, I went to Edward Sapir with my puzzlement. He said laconically, `She's a pathological liar'. I was startled as much by what he said, as by the fact that an eminent anthropologist and chairman of a department should say this to a mere graduate student. But over the years, I have come to believe that this is literally the case." The next round in the evaluation of Mead's anthropology, we may hope, will collect and critically assess this largely unpublished expert opinion.


                  Hiram Caton
                  Editor, The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock.

                  4 out of 5 stars read it for yourself.......2005-12-28

                  Famous books in any academic discipline draw a lot of attention (thus making them famous). When negative, most such attention arises from personal jealously about the success of others, and given that Mead is a woman, she draws additional scorn from male academics (and their female supplicants). As a result, many myths develop and circulate around academic departments, and even worse, people rely on textbook (mis)representations in place of their own reading. I encourage anyone with serious interest in traditional Samoa and/or anthropology to read this book for themselves, consider Mead's evidence and analysis, and develop your own assessment. Clearly, most of the reviewers here have not read the book. By the way, I give the book four stars because it does have flaws, but read it and decide for yourself.
                  Margaret Mead: A Life
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                    Jane Howard
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                    Life Is With People
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                    Mark Zborowski , and Elizabeth Herzog
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                    5 out of 5 stars Review: Life is with People.......2000-05-30

                    I have read this book several times--as well as parts of it at least a half dozen times--and have never failed to glean an enormous amount of information about the incredible lives of Eastern European Jews before World War II. The authors (all of whom are highly trained in their respective fields) have opened up to their readers a beautiful and yet painful world which those of us who live in freedom and prosperity probably never knew existed before.

                    The writing is clear and precise and the reader is offered many direct quotes as well as regional aphorisms and Yiddish terms used by the Eastern European Jews to describe their friends, family and surroundings. At times I was filled with laughter, other times brought to tears by the words of those who lived in the shtetleh of Poland and Russia.

                    The Jews of Eastern Europe were a simple people of faith---in their God, in their little run-down communities, in their family and friends---but they also lived in a world which evoked a constant sense of fear knowing that anytime day or night they were subject to the violent whims of their Gentile neighbors. During the worst pogroms, Jews were attacked and sometimes murdered in front of family members and friends. And yet, because of the social conditions in Eastern Europe, those who witnessed the horrors of a pogrom might actually come face to face the very next day with those same Gentile attackers in the marketplace, and they were expected to act as if nothing at all had happened. We of democratic laws and justice would not fair so well in such a society; they had no such choice, for to complain was to risk one's life and bring down further destruction on their shtetl.

                    With few exceptions, the Jews of Eastern Europe lived and died with dignity and courage despite the sometimes horrible conditions under which they were forced to live, and this book describes this world more simply and clearly than any other I've read. For them, life truly was "With People", and it opened up my eyes to the incredible value of my own family and friends and the freedoms so richly enjoyed in this, the nation of my birth. I was deeply moved by this book and would recommend it to anyone, regardless of their national origin or religious faith. John Edward Flynt
                    Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936-1939
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                      Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936-1939
                      Gerald Sullivan
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                      In 1936 anthropologist Margaret Mead and her husband, Gregory Bateson, retreated from lowland Bali, which was the focal point of much scholarly and tourist activity, to the remote village of Bayung Gedé in the island's central highlands. Although they wrote relatively little about their work in this place, which Mead called "our village, way up in the mountains, a lovely self-contained village," they did leave behind a remarkably rich and extensive photographic record of their time there.

                      Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali includes 200 photographs that the couple took between 1936 and 1939, the vast majority of which have never before been published. They vividly capture the everyday lives of the men, women, and children of Bayung Gedé, their homes and their temples, and many other fascinating details of village life not featured in Mead and Bateson's publications.

                      In a substantial introductory essay, Gerald Sullivan, who selected the photographs, uses excerpts from fieldnotes and correspondence to illuminate Mead and Bateson's ethnographic work. Tracing the project from its inception in their proposals to the publication of their work, Sullivan shows how they used the photographs both as fieldnotes and as elements in their theoretical argument. Finally, he explores what the photographs reveal—independently of Mead and Bateson's project—about the Balinese character to the contemporary viewer.

                      The result is a both a substantial contribution to visual anthropology and an invaluable supplement to the published works of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.
                      Margaret Mead: A Life of Controversy (Lives of Modern Women)
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                        Margaret Mead: A Life of Controversy (Lives of Modern Women)
                        Phyllis Grosskurth
                        Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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                        ASIN: 0140087605
                        To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
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                          To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
                          Margaret Mead , Margaret M. Caffrey , and Patricia Francis
                          Manufacturer: Perseus Books Group
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                          Binding: Hardcover

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                          This first collection of Margaret Mead's personal correspondence creates a vivid and intimate portrait of an American icon--with a foreword by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson

                          Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional correspondence, which spanned sixty years. These letters lend insights into Mead's relationships with interconnected circles of family, friends, and colleagues, and reveal her thoughts on the nature of these relationships.

                          In these letters--drawn primarily from her papers at the Library of Congress--Mead ruminates on family, friendships, sexuality, marriage, children, and career. In midlife, at a low point, she wrote to a friend, "What I seem to need most is close, aware human relationships, which somehow reinstate my sense of myself, as no longer living 'in the season of the narrow heart.'" This collection is structured around these relationships, which were so integral to Mead's perspective on life. With a foreword by her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, a renowned author and anthropologist in her own right, this volume of letters from Mead to those who shared her life and work offers new insight into a rich and deeply complex mind.
                          The Balinese People: A Reinvestigation of Character
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                            The Balinese People: A Reinvestigation of Character
                            Gordon D. Jensen , and Luh Ketut Suryani
                            Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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                            ASIN: 0195885570

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                            Published exactly fifty years after Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead's Balinese Character (which still stands as the standard reference on Balinese personality and culture), this new study of the Balinese people -- a collaboration between a Western psychiatrist with wide experience of Balinese culture and mental health and a Western-trained Balinese psychiatrist steeped in the local culture -- is unable to support the majority of Bateson and Mead's interpretations and conclusions and finds their basic assumptions inherently flawed. The study concludes that their book presents an inaccurate and misleading characterization of the Balinese as they were fifty years ago. In addition to this critique, the authors present their alternative formulations of psychosocial aspects of Balinese culture, their aim being to establish a more correct and valid portrayal of the life of the Balinese.
                            Adolescent Storm and Stress: An Evaluation of the Mead-freeman Controversy (Research Monographs in Adolescence)
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                              Adolescent Storm and Stress: An Evaluation of the Mead-freeman Controversy (Research Monographs in Adolescence)
                              James E. Ct , and James E. Cote
                              Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum
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                              ASIN: 0805815066
                              Coming of age in Samoa,: A study of adolescence and sex in primitive societies
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                                Coming of age in Samoa,: A study of adolescence and sex in primitive societies
                                Margaret Mead
                                Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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                                A creative life for your children (United States. Children's Bureau. Headliner series)
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                                  A creative life for your children (United States. Children's Bureau. Headliner series)
                                  Margaret Mead
                                  Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Children's Bureau; [for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]
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