What is it about?
Derek Freeman and others have misrepresented what Mead actually said in Coming of Age in Samoa. Here I try to set the record straight.
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Why is it important?
The so-called Mead-Freeman controversy was one of the fiercest anthropological debates of the late-20th century.
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This page is a summary of: Margaret Mead and Samoa: Coming of Age in Fact and Fiction, American Anthropologist, September 1988, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1988.90.3.02a00080.
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