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TAGATA PASIFIKA - HERETIC

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Year
1998
Reference
TZP198177
Media type
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Year
1998
Reference
TZP198177
Media type
Moving image
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Series
TAGATA PASIFIKA
Categories
News & Production
Duration
006:26
Broadcast Date
12/04/1998
Production company
TVNZ
Taonga Māori Collection
Yes
Credits
PRESENTER: Ngaire Fuata-Coley
REPORTER: Lisa Taouma
DIRECTOR: Lisa Taouma
PRODUCER: Stephen Stehlin
TPA: Elaine Parker

The play, Heretic, by David Williamson, Australian playwright, is playing at Circa Theatre during the International Festival of the Arts. It concerns the academic debate over the influence of instinct or culture in the establishment of a society's customs. Margaret Mead, anthropologist, visited Samoa in the 1920s and wrote of Samoans as sexually free happy people, whereas Derek Freeman refuted her work in the 1970s by painting a picture of Samoa as a puritanical violent society.