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Margaret Mead and Samoa

Australia, 1988
film

Margaret Mead was one of the three best known women in American history. Known as “Mother of the World”, this video is about her sensational disco..

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Western Samoa: the best of both worlds?

United States, 1982
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Samoa: I can get another wife but I can't get any parents

Australia, 1983
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Four families

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Teine Samoa: a girl of Samoa

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May's story

Australia, MAR 2009
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Paradise bent: boys will be girls in Samoa

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Margaret: a pride in identity

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A new day in Samoa

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Western Samoa

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Samoa [Widescreen]

United States, 1961
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Patsy Adam-Smith: author and social historian

Australia, 1991
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Samoa

New Zealand, 1948
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Cultures of mothering

Australia, 1996
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Children of Samoa

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Samoa I Sisifo

Australia, 1972
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Maidens

Australia, 1978
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Paradises in the Pacific

Australia, 1993
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World of change: world of promise

United States, 1979
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