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The trashing of Margaret Mead: anatomy of an anthropological controversy

Paul Shankman
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Foreword (Paul S. Boyer, page x)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • PART 1: The Controversy and the Media
    • 1 The Controversy in the Media (page 23)
    • 2 Selling the Controversy (page 31)
  • PART 2: Derek Freeman
    • 3 Derek Freeman, the Critic (page 47)
    • 4 Psychoanalysis, Freeman, and Mead (page 57)
  • PART 3: Margaret Mead and Coming of Age in Samoa
    • 5 Young Margaret Mead (page 73)
    • 6 First Fieldwork in Samoa (page 87)
    • 7 Writing Coming of Age in Samoa (page 101)
    • 8 Mead's American Audience in the 1920s (page 116)
  • PART 4: Sex, Lies, and Samoans
    • 9 What the Controversy Meant to Samoans (page 135)
    • 10 Samoan Sexual Conduct: Belief and Behavior (page 151)
    • 11 Under the Coconut Palms (page 160)
    • 12 Virginity and the History of Sex in Samoa (page 175)
  • PART 5: The Broader Issues
    • 13 The Many Versions of the Hoaxing Hypothesis (page 193)
    • 14 The Nature-Nurture Debate and the Appeal of Freeman's Argument (page 206)
  • Conclusion (page 225)
  • Appendix: True Confessions (page 239)
  • Notes (page 249)
  • Bibliography (page 271)
  • Index (page 289)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
PHR 80.1 (Feb. 2011): 152-153 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/phr.2011.80.1.152
Citable Link
Published: c2009
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299234539 (ebook)
  • 9780299234546 (paper)
Subject
  • Anthropology
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