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| AUTHOR: | Derek Freeman |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Harvard Univ Pr |
| ISBN: | 0674548302 |
| TYPE: | 1901-1978, Adolescence, Anthropology - Cultural, Ethnology, History Of Anthropological Thought, Mead, Margaret,, Nature and nurture, Samoan Islands, Sociology, Mead, Margaret |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Coming of Age in America The is a most important book because it sets the record straign about Margaret Mead. Her book on Samoa created a false understanding of primitive peoples. She went to Samoa to do her PhD dissertation and came back with a myth that supported the prejudices and biases of her graduate advisor, Franz Boas. She purportedly discovered that the Samoans were the personification of Jean Jacque Roussoue's "Noble Savage." There were unspoiled by the vices of Western Civilization. The biggest vice was supposedly the West's repressive sexuality that gave rise to social aggression of various kinds. Derek Freeman blows all of this out of the water. He points out among other things that Mean did not know the language and stayed there only a few weeks. This does not come up to the standards of methodology that anthropologists have come to accept to accurately understand and describe a culture.