Robert Levy
Special Issue of Ethos Devoted to Robert Levy [journal article review, part 3 of 3]
Robert Levy told his graduate student, Paula Levin, that he really disliked small talk, except when he was doing field research with the Tahitians, with whom he constantly conversed in an informal manner. Levin writes, in a recent issue of Ethos devoted to Levy, that his ability to engage people in such informal conversations were […]
Special Issue of Ethos Devoted to Robert Levy [journal article review, part 2 of 3]
When he arrived in Tahiti, Robert Levy observed that the village of Piri “had the typical Polynesian, South Seas, soft-utopian exoticism of outrigger canoes, coral reefs, lagoons, [and] a few long haired maidens with flowers in their hair …” But the exoticism faded quickly “to mosquitoes, to boredom, to closer views of the longhaired maidens […]
Special Issue of Ethos Devoted to Robert Levy [journal article review, part 1 of 3]
Robert Levy’s book Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands was a landmark study of the emotional and cognitive experiences of the Tahitians in the early 1960s. The book is not only the basis for including the Tahitians in the Encyclopedia of Selected Peaceful Societies portion of this website, it is also one of […]
