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Myth mongering.(To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead)(Book review)
To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead, edited by Margaret Caffrey and Patricia Francis (Basic, 429 pp., $29.95)
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MARGARET MEAD, the most famous anthropologist of the 20th century, once described field work as "the intensive months of trying to step as fully as one can into the reality of another culture." That's supposedly what she did in 1925, when she arrived in Samoa to study the psychology and sexual habits of island girls. She was just 23, and her head was full of the progressive ideas and cultural relativism that she had imbibed from "Papa Franz"--i.e., Franz Boas, her handlebar-mustachioed ...
- MEAD BOOK TOPS WORST NON-FICTION LIST SAMOA STUDY SCORNED FOR FAULTY METHODS,...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) January 21, 2000 700+ words
...University at Canberra, attacked Mead's Samoa work. ``Her account of the...he wrote in ``Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of...book, ``Quest for the Real Samoa.'' Although critical of Mead's findings, Holmes said...
- The Margaret Mead Vendetta, Round Two.(Review)
- Magazine article from: World and I HOLMES, LOWELL D. May 1, 1999 700+ words
...who also authored Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of...1983, questioned the quality of Mead's work in Samoa as presented in 1928 in her world...including Quest for the Real Samoa: The Mead/Freeman Controversy and Beyond...
- The fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead: a historical analysis of her Samoan...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Taylor, Margaret March 1, 2002 700+ words
...material already given in Margaret Mead in Samoa: the making and unmaking of...By the time she arrived in Samoa, Mead was ready to see the lovers...sexual activity. My doubts about Mead's Coming of age in Samoa (1928) first surfaced many...
- Margaret Mead vs. Tony Soprano : Feminist anthropology fights for public voice...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Leonardo, Micaela di May 21, 2001 700+ words
...mass media firestorm. Margaret Mead and Samoa is a badly written and unconvincing claim that Mead, influenced in a "culturally determinist...New Rightist politics. Margaret Mead and Samoa provided a Heaven-sent opportunity...
- The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead:A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan...
- Magazine article from: Oceania Va'a, Unasa L. F. December 1, 2000 700+ words
...follow-up of his previous book on Margaret Mead, Margaret Mead and Samoa. The Making and Unmaking of on Anthropological...earlier book is Freeman's critique of Mead's famous work, Coming of Age in Samoa, a study of adolescence in Samoa and of...
- Mead, Margaret (1901-1978)
- Dictionary definition from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis Pulman, Bertrand January 1, 2005 700+ words
...and Ruth Benedict, Mead first did fieldwork in eastern Samoa. In the published...1983). Margaret Mead and Samoa: The making and unmaking...The Hague: Mouton. Mead, Margaret. (1928). Coming of age in Samoa . New York: William...
- Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman and the Samoans.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Oceania Sanjek, Roger June 1, 1999 700+ words
...Few would deny that Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) is a flawed volume, and from his careful review of both Mead's book and her Samoan fieldwork...a.' To a reviewer who views Mead's Samoa work as perhaps the first hypothesis...
- Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire and the South Pacific.
- Magazine article from: Oceania Neumann, Klaus December 1, 1995 700+ words
...Foerstel and Angela Gilliam reassess Mead's politics of ethnographic representation...triggered by Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa. With her refutation of Freeman...determinism and her sympathetic critique of Mead's brand of cultural relativism...
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