Sydney Morning Herald Column
Greg Semu
Thursday, November 24th, 2016
Sydney Morning Herald Column,
Adolf Loos, famous Viennese designer and arbiter of taste, said that only criminals and savages adorned themselves with tattoos. Writing in 1928, he singled out the Papuans as representative “savages”, but he might just as easily have chosen the Samoans. In the very same year, Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, perhaps the […]