Trashing Margaret Mead
Subtitle: anatomy of an anthropological controversy
By: Paul Shankman.
Series: Studies in American thought and culture; Studies in American thought and culture
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780299234546; 9780299234539
Subjects: Mead, Margaret, -- 1901-1978; Freeman, Derek; Ethnology -- Methodology; Ethnology -- Samoan Islands
Description: "In The Trashing of Margaret Mead, Paul Shankman explores the many dimensions of the Mead-Freeman controversy as it developed publicly and as it played out privately, including the personal relationships, professional rivalries, and larger-than-life personalities that drove it."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.