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Author:

Shankman, Paul.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

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

Subject:

Mead, Margaret,--1901-1978.
Freeman, Derek.
Ethnology--Methodology.
Ethnology--Samoan Islands.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-288) and index.

Contents:

The controversy in the media -- Selling the controversy -- Derek Freeman, the critic -- Psychoanalysis, Freeman, and Mead -- 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 -- 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 -- The broader issues : the many visions of the hoaxing hypothesis -- The nature-nurture debate and the appeal of Freeman's argument -- Appendix: True confessions.

ISBN:

0299234533 (e-book)
9780299234539 (e-book)
0299234541 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299234546 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317383410

LCCN:

2009008197

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)