Quest for the Real Samoa
Subtitle: The Mead/Freeman Controversy and Beyond
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: November 30, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780897891103
Subjects: Political control & freedoms; Political ideologies; Nonfiction; History Of Anthropological Thought; Mead, Margaret,; Samoa; Nonfiction - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Mead, Margaret; Ethnology; 1901-1978; Freeman, Derek; Samoan Islands
First sentence: In 1911 Franz Boas, Margaret Mead's future mentor and role model, wrote a book titled The Mind of Primitive Man.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Mead’s coming of age research -- Restudies : use and misuse -- Culture of the village of Ta’ü - 1954 -- Social organization : family and fono -- Samoan religion -- The life cycle -- The factor of change -- Assessing Margaret Mead -- Psychometric assessment -- Assessing Derek Freeman -- Postscript -- Notes.