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The trashing of Margaret Mead : anatomy of an anthropological controversy / Paul Shankman.

by Shankman, Paul.

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Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009.

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.

Freeman, Derek.

Ethnology -- Methodology.

Ethnology -- Samoan Islands.

9780299234546 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

0299234541 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Studies in American thought and culture.

xvii, 299 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Part I. The controversy and the media : The controversy in the media -- Selling the controversy -- Part II. Derek Freeman : Derek Freeman, the critic -- Psychoanalysis, Freeman, and Mead -- Part III. Margaret Mead and Coming of age in Samoa : Young Margaret Mead -- First fieldwork in Samoa -- Writing Coming of age in Samoa -- Mead's American audience in the 1920s -- Part IV. Sex, lies, and Samoans : What the controversy meant to the Samoans -- Samoan sexual conduct: belief and behavior -- Under the coconut palms -- Virginity and the history of sex in Samoa -- Part V. The broader issues : The many visions of the hoaxing hypothesis -- The nature-nurture debate and the appeal of Freeman's argument -- Conclusion -- Appendix: True confessions.

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