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雖然這是一部虛構的作品,但它最初的靈感來自簡·霍華德一九八四年出版的傳記《瑪格麗特·米德的一生》,以及後來我讀到的所有關於人類學家瑪格麗特·米德、裏奧·福瓊和格雷戈裏·貝特森的書籍。一九三三年,他們三人在當時還被稱為“新幾內亞領地”的塞皮克河流域共同生活了幾個月。我借用了他們這段經歷,但我講述的是一個不同的故事。
書中提到的大多數部落和村莊都是虛構的。您在地圖上是找不到塔姆或者基奧納部落的,但我把當年米德、福瓊和貝特森實際考察過的那些部落的細節用到了書裏,那些部落是:Tchambuli(現在的名字是Chambri)、Iatmul、Mundugumor和Arapesh。書中提到的《弧形文化帶》一書的原型是露絲·本尼迪克特的著作《文化模式》。
下列書籍為我的寫作研究提供了巨大的幫助:
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
我還要感謝以下這些人仔細閱讀了此書初稿並提出了極有見地的建議:
泰勒·克萊門茨、蘇珊·康利、薩拉·科比特、凱特琳·古泰爾、安雅·漢森、德布拉·斯帕克,還有我姐姐莉薩、我的經紀人朱莉·巴雷爾、威廉·博格斯、傑瑪·珀迪,還有我親愛的編輯伊麗莎白·施米茨。我還要感謝摩根·昂特金、德布·西格、查爾斯·伍茲、凱蒂·拉伊西安、艾米·亨德利、朱迪·霍特森,還有格羅夫-亞特蘭迪克出版社的每一個人。莉莎·貝克韋爾在人類學方面的獨特眼光對該書最後的幾次修改起到了難以估量的作用。我還要感謝那家價格低廉的“海邊客棧”,我是在那裏於狂喜中完成了最後的修改。還要感謝科妮莉亞·沃爾沃思,那天是她帶我去的書店。
我要特別感謝我的丈夫泰勒和我們的女兒卡拉和艾蘿依。我愛你們。