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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-288) and index.

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Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword by Paul S. Boyer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Controversy and the Media -- 1 The Controversy in the Media -- 2 Selling the Controversy -- Part 2: Derek Freeman -- 3 Derek Freeman, the Critic -- 4 Psychoanalysis, Freeman, and Mead -- Part 3: Margaret Mead andComing 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 -- Part 4: Sex, Lies, and Samoans -- 9 What the Controversy Meant to Samoans

10 Samoan Sexual Conduct: Belief and Behavior11 Under the Coconut Palms -- 12 Virginity and the History of Sex in Samoa -- Part 5: The Broader Issues -- 13 The Many Versions of the Hoaxing Hypothesis -- 14 The Nature-Nurture Debate and the Appeal of Freeman's Argument -- Conclusion -- Appendix: True Confessions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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