In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, "Coming of Age in Samoa" has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial "negative instance", an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology. In this book, the author presents startling but wholly convincing evidence that Mead's proof is false. On the basis of years of patient fieldwork and historical research, Freeman refutes Mead's characterization of Samoan society and adolescence point for point. Far from the relaxed transition to adulthood that Mead ascribed to permissive child-bearing and restrictive regulations against premarital sex.

Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth

Politics & Social Sciences

FREEMAN, Derek

Social Sciences

Penguin??Books

Report on the Iban (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology)

Routledge

The Iban or the Sea Dayaks of Sarawak have probably been the best known of the indigenous peoples of Borneo. There was little information on their methods of agriculture and their social system. This book studies the shifting cultivation and cognatic kinship organization. The field work on which this is based was undertaken from 1949 to 1951.

Report on the Iban (London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology)

Humanities Press

Iban Agriculture: A Report on the Shifting Cultivation of Hill Rice by the Iban of Sarawak (Colonial Research Studies, No. 18)

Engineering & Transportation

Freeman, J. D.

Engineering

Ams Pr Inc

The Iban or the Sea Dayaks of Sarawak have probably been the best known of the indigenous peoples of Borneo for well over a century. Much has been written about them, but until the results of Dr Freeman`s field research were published by the Government of Sarawak and by Her Majesty`s Stationery Office in 1955 there was little information on their methods of agriculture and their social system. The book has become a landmark in the studies of shifting cultivation and of cognatic kinship organization; and the ideas around which it is written have proved over the years to be a continuing and powerful stimulus in the development of kinship theory. The field work on which the account is based was undertaken from 1949 to 1951. Although fundamental changes have taken place in the life of the Iban since the book was first published, it has been decided to republish it substantially unaltered.

Report on the Iban

Anthropology

Bloomsbury Academic

Analyzes Margaret Mead's study of the culture of the Samoan Islands and argues that the findings of her research are in error

Margaret Mead and Samoa

Harvard University Press

Margaret Mead and Samoa: the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth

For most of the twentieth century, Margaret Mead's renowned book Coming of Age in Samoa has validated an antievolutionary anthropological paradigm that assumes that culture is the overwhelming determinant of human behavior. Her account of female adolescent sexuality in Samoa initiated a career that led to Margaret Mead becoming ”indisputably the most publicly celebrated scientist in America.” But what if her study wasn't all it appeared to be? What if, having neglected the problem she had been sent to investigate, she relied at the last moment on the tales of two traveling companions who jokingly misled her about the sexual behavior of Samoan girls? What if her famous study was based on a hoax?In The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman addresses these issues in a detailed historical analysis of Margaret Mead's Samoan researches and of her training in New York by Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict. By examining hitherto unpublished correspondence between Mead, her mentor Franz Boas and othersas well as the sworn testimony of Fa'apua'a Fa'am, one of Mead's traveling companions of 1926Freeman provides compelling evidence that one of the most influential anthropological studies of the twentieth century was unwittingly based on the mischievous joking of the investigator's informants.But The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead goes beyond a historical account of how the hoax took place; it is an examination of how Mead's Boasian training set her up to be hoaxedand set others up to accept her conclusions. The book is more than a correction of scientific error: It is a crucial step toward rethinking the foundations of social science and the overly relativistic worldview of much of the modern world.

The Fateful Hoaxing Of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research

History

Australia & Oceania

Basic Books

Breeding rearing and training the guide dog way. dw, 1991, 176pp

Barking Up the Right Tree: Breeding, Rearing and Training the Guide Dog Way

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Ringpress Books Ltd

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