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.
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