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The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead, A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research
by Derek Freeman
- NATURAL HISTORY
- 1999
- PAPER
- 279 PAGES
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Freeman continues the de-construction of Margaret Mead in this painstaking follow-up to his controversial biography of the anthropological icon. Apart from the fun of shaking up long held myths and views, Freeman exposes in detail the flaws, misconceptions and tall tales in Mead's 1925-1926 fieldwork supervised by Franz Boas. Freeman, who met Mead in 1964, has worked in Samoa for decades. He thinks she was taken in by tricksters -- and that he training by Boas set up to be fooled by mischievous informants. Read it alongside Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa.
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