一説によるとミードのこの説の根拠が間違いだったそうですが。たとえば、 Margaret Mead's influential demonstrations that adolescence is stress-free in Samoa and that sex temperaments are reversed among the Chambri-which had supported the tabula rasa view of the mind and the apparent supremacy of culture over biology in human affairs-have been cast out. http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/ANTB25/SCMEDIA/Readings/Brown.html
Mead's conclusions were based on her studies of the Samoan islanders, whose nonchalant sexual habits, she claimed, made them satisfied and their society crime-free; and on the Tshambuli, who had reversed sex roles, with the men wearing make-up and curls and, she said, having gentle natures as a result.
Fact is, later studies showed that the Samoans had sexual jealousy and rape like any other society, and the Tshambuli men were wife-beaters and treated homicide as a milestone in a young man's life which entitled him to wear the face-paint Mead thought was so feminine. http://www.caribscape.com/baldeosingh/social/sober/2000/culture2.html