Round 9: Tossup 14

Family units in this archipelago called ‘aiga feature in Leaves of the Banyan Tree by author Albert Wendt. This archipelago’s Rainmaker Mountain provides the setting for a story about the sex worker Sadie Thompson written by W. Somerset Maugham (“mom”). Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson moved to and died in this archipelago. Visits to this archipelago’s (-5[1])Manu’a Islands informed works on “social organization” (-5[1])that were criticized by Derek Freeman. A 1928 anthropological work (10[1]-5[1])depicting lessened sexual mores in this archipelago (10[1])was written by Margaret Mead. For 10 points, what Pacific (-5[1])Island (10[1])archipelago includes a namesake “American” territory (10[2])led (10[1])from Pago Pago? ■END■ (10[6])

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