![]() ![]() In The Trashing of Margaret Mead, Paul Shankman explores the many dimensions of the Mead-Freeman controversy as it developed publicly and as it played out privately, including the personal relationships, professional rivalries, and larger-than-life personalities that drove it. ![]() TV show Donahue, Freeman argued that Mead had been “hoaxed” by Samoans whose innocent lies she took at face value. Including sexual permissiveness, cultural relativism, and the Resonating beyond academic circles, his case against Mead tapped into important public concerns of the 1980s, In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead’s Samoan research, badly damaging her reputation. In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. James Côté, author of Adolescent Storm and Stress: AnĮvaluation of the Mead-Freeman Controversy "A superbly crafted and highly readable book that essentially lays the Mead-Freeman controversy to rest." Well researched and thoroughly documented, this should be of interest both to anthropologists and to educated lay readers with interests in Mead and her legacy." " balanced portrait of this complex and often vitriolic anthropological controversy. BoyerĪnthropology / History / American Studies / Women’s StudiesĪnatomy of an Anthropological Controversy ![]() ![]() UW Press - : The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy, Paul Shankman, Foreword by Paul S. ![]()
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