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

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ISBN	9780299234546 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0299234541 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780299234539 (ebook)
	0299234533 (e-book)
Author	Shankman, Paul
Title	The trashing of Margaret Mead : anatomy of an anthropological controversy / Paul Shankman.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009.
Description	xvii, 299 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Series	Studies in American thought and culture
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-288) and index.
Contents	Foreword / Paul S. Boyer -- Pt. 1. The Controversy and the Media -- 1. The Controversy in the Media -- 2. Selling the Controversy -- Pt. 2. Derek Freeman -- 3. Derek Freeman, the Critic -- 4. Psychoanalysis, Freeman, and Mead -- Pt. 3. Margaret Mead and Coming of Age in Samoa -- 5. Young Margaret Mead -- 6. First Fieldwork in Samoa -- 7. Writing Coming of Age in Samoa -- 8. Mead's American Audience in the 1920s -- Pt. 4. Sex, Lies, and Samoans -- 9. What the Controversy Meant to Samoans -- 10. Samoan Sexual Conduct: Belief and Behavior -- 11. Under the Coconut Palms -- 12. Virginity and the History of Sex in Samoa -- Pt. 5. The Broader Issues -- 13. The Many Versions of the Hoaxing Hypothesis -- 14. The Nature-Nurture Debate and the Appeal of Freeman's Argument -- Appendix. True Confessions.
Subjects	Mead, Margaret, -- 1901-1978
	Freeman, Derek
	Ethnology -- Methodology
	Ethnology -- Samoan Islands
Series	Studies in American thought and culture
Call number	306.0996 SHA

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