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Truth's Fool
Reveals the intellectual complexities and internal struggles of the New Zealand anthropologist whose strident repudiation of Margaret Mead's work set off one of the most ferocious scholarly feuds of the twentieth century.
Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective
This book explores choice behavior as constrained by culture, biology, and psychoanalytic processes in a variety of ethnographic contexts in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Africa--the arena in which the controversy between Derek Freeman and anthropologist Margaret Mead's ideas of culture first developed. It also examines the interface between a nomothetic anthropology and a hermeneutic, idiographic anthropology, raising the critical question as to how ethnographic "knowledge" of another culture is achieved and transmitted to others. Freeman rejects an exclusive reliance on either culture or biology as key to explaining human behavior, proposing instead an interactionist paradigm. Fundamental t...
A View from the Crossroads
I was raised in South Queensferry (the Ferry) and lived in the Prefabs at Walker Drive (now mentioned in the song "Two Bridges" by Bwani Junction) till my marriage in 1966.I have often thought about putting pen to paper and telling some of the tales from my early years, but to be honest I didn't think there would be much interest in the Ferry and the exploits of myself and a few friends in the late 1950's and early 1960's.At present I am recovering from a serious illness and thought what better time to put my thoughts into words.Crime in the Ferry was unheard of - that was until one quiet Sunday night when we decided to walk down to the Harbour for a game of cards. What was planned as a one-off exploit turned into a crime spree.I have attempted in these stories to relate everything I can remember as clearly as possible and without incriminating any of my former friends.
Dilthey’s Dream
With great eloquence, Derek Freeman takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the complexities of philosophical anthropology. Even while the controversial Nature–Nurture debate raged, Freeman contended that the crucial fact that humans had the capacity to make choices was ‘both intrinsic to our biology and basic to the very formation of cultures’. Thus the scene was set for his widely publicised criticism of Margaret Mead’s book Coming of Age in Samoa. Publishing her research in 1926, Mead concluded that all human behaviour was the result of social conditioning. Freeman refuted this assumption in 1983, urging closer interactions between the biological sciences and cultural studies to bridge the ever-widening chasm threatening all studies of humankind. Dilthey’s Dream is an engagingly powerful set of essays depicting the depth of one man’s thinking on issues, which consumed a lifetime.
Heretic
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Margaret Mead and the Heretic
The late renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead's major field-work study COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA became the key text in the nature-nurture controversy and a reference point for the social and sexual revolution of the 1960s. Derek Freeman's book, updated here with a new Foreword, refutes Mead's work, claiming she was misinformed by Samoan natives regarding the sexual proclivities of their culture.
The Trashing of Margaret Mead
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 Samoan research, badly damaging her reputation. Resonating beyond academic circles, his case against Mead tapped into important public concerns of the 1980s, including sexual permissiveness, cultural relativism, and the nature/nurture debate. In venues from the New York Times to the TV show Donahue, Freeman argued that Mead had been “hoaxed” by Samoans whose innocent lies she took at face value. In The Trashing of Margaret Mead, Paul Shankman exp...
Not Even Wrong
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