Imagining the South Seas : thoughts on the sexual politics of paradise in Samoa

Explores the image-making of paradise by examining book covers and photographs associated with the narratives of Samoa of Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman. Argues that as cultural artefacts, the illustrations offer an intriguing way of investigating issues of ethnographic representation and the problem of who 'owns' the bodies of Pacific Islander women. 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.