The trashing of Margaret Mead : anatomy of an anthropological controversy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Studies in American thought and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.