鸣谢
虽然这是一部虚构的作品,但它最初的灵感来自简·霍华德一九八四年出版的传记《玛格丽特·米德的一生》,以及后来我读到的所有关于人类学家玛格丽特·米德、里奥·福琼和格雷戈里·贝特森的书籍。一九三三年,他们三人在当时还被称为“新几内亚领地”的塞皮克河流域共同生活了几个月。我借用了他们这段经历,但我讲述的是一个不同的故事。
书中提到的大多数部落和村庄都是虚构的。您在地图上是找不到塔姆或者基奥纳部落的,但我把当年米德、福琼和贝特森实际考察过的那些部落的细节用到了书里,那些部落是:Tchambuli(现在的名字是Chambri)、Iatmul、Mundugumor和Arapesh。书中提到的《弧形文化带》一书的原型是露丝·本尼迪克特的著作《文化模式》。
下列书籍为我的写作研究提供了巨大的帮助:
Naven by Gregory Bateson;
With a Daughter's Eye:A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson;
Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict;
The Last Cannibals by Jens Bjerre;
Return to Laughter by Elenore Smith Bowen;
One Hundred Years of Anthropology edited by J. O.Brew;
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler;
To Cherish the World:Selected Letters of Margaret Mead edited by Margaret M. Caffrey and Patricia A.Francis;
Sepik River Societies:A Historical Ethnography of the Chambri and Their Neighbors by Deborah Gewertz;
Women in the Field:Anthropological Experiences edited by Peggy Golde;
Margaret Mead:A Life by Jane Howard;
Papua New Guinea Phrasebook by John Hunter;
Kiki:Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime;
An Autobiography from New Guinea by Albert Maori Kiki;
Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict:The Kinship of Women by Hilary Lapsley;
Gregory Bateson:The Legacy of a Scientist by David Lipset;
Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski;
Rain and Other South Sea Stories by Somerset Maugham;
The Mundugumor by Nancy McDowell;
Blackberry Winter:My Early Years by Margaret Mead;
Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead;
Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples edited by Mar-garet Mead;
Growing Up in New Guinea by Margaret Mead;
Letters from the Field,1925-1975 by Margaret Mead;
Sex and Temperament:In Three Primitive Societies by Margaret Mead;
Four Corners:A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak;
Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and Others:Essays on Culture and Personality edited by George W. Stocking Jr.;
Observers Observed:Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork edited by George W. Stocking Jr.;
Village Medical Manual:A Layman's Guide to Health Care in De-veloping Countries—Volume II:Diagnosis and Treatment by Mary Vander-kooi MD
我还要感谢以下这些人仔细阅读了此书初稿并提出了极有见地的建议:
泰勒·克莱门茨、苏珊·康利、萨拉·科比特、凯特琳·古泰尔、安雅·汉森、德布拉·斯帕克,还有我姐姐莉萨、我的经纪人朱莉·巴雷尔、威廉·博格斯、杰玛·珀迪,还有我亲爱的编辑伊丽莎白·施米茨。我还要感谢摩根·昂特金、德布·西格、查尔斯·伍兹、凯蒂·拉伊西安、艾米·亨德利、朱迪·霍特森,还有格罗夫-亚特兰迪克出版社的每一个人。莉莎·贝克韦尔在人类学方面的独特眼光对该书最后的几次修改起到了难以估量的作用。我还要感谢那家价格低廉的“海边客栈”,我是在那里于狂喜中完成了最后的修改。还要感谢科妮莉亚·沃尔沃思,那天是她带我去的书店。
我要特别感谢我的丈夫泰勒和我们的女儿卡拉和艾萝依。我爱你们。