The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy by Paul S. Boyer, Paul Shankman

The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy

Paul S. Boyer, Paul Shankman

320 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead’s Sam...

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