Contesting the erotic zone : Margaret Mead's fieldwork photographs of Samoa

Discusses the lack of scholarly attention paid to the photographs taken by the ethnographer during her first field work in the South Pacific. Reports that her pictures challenged prevailing prepresentations of Polynesian women, as they experimented with alternative visual narratives about Samoan women's bodies and their everyday lives. Comments on the usefulness of her first effort at using a camera in the field. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.