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Margaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
Margaret Mead and the Heretic The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth Author:Derek Freeman The late renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead's major field-work study COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA became the key text in the nature-nurture controversy and a reference point for the social and sexual revolution of the 1960s. Derek Freeman's book, updated here with a new Foreword, refutes Mead's work, claiming she was misinformed by Samoan natives r... more »egarding the sexual proclivities of their culture.« less