Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological MythAnalyzes Margaret Mead's study of the culture of the Samoan Islands and argues that the findings of her research are in error |
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User Review - ritaer - LibraryThingSamoa wasn't paradise after all and Freeman asserts Mead set out to prove a point, rather than open inquiry about the malleability of human nature Read full review
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User Review - mbmackay - LibraryThingComprehensively debunks the Mead myth of Samoa. Incidentally shows the Social Sciences struggling as a science due to the inherent with a lack of "repeatable experiments" available to the hard sciences. Read in Samoa July 2003 Read full review
Contents
Galton Eugenics and Biological Determinism | 3 |
Boas and the Distinction between Culture and Heredity | 19 |
The Launching of Cultural Determinism | 34 |
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