Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Samoa Reader
Hiram Caton
€ 81.37
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Samoa Reader
Paperback. The Samoa Reader is a source book on the most extensive controversy in the history of anthropology, touched off by the publication of Derek Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. Editor(s): Caton, Hiram. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: G; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
The Samoa Reader is a source book on the most extensive controversy in the history of anthropology, touched off by the publication of Derek Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. Freeman's book purported to refute the most famous writing of the world's most honored and celebrated anthropologist. This book seemed to many to be an attack on liberal values; anthropologists believed that it was a concerted assault on the reliability and conceptual structure of cultural anthropology in the name of 'sociobiology.' The Reader canvasses these and other issues by assembling, in readable form, ... Read more
The Samoa Reader is a source book on the most extensive controversy in the history of anthropology, touched off by the publication of Derek Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. Freeman's book purported to refute the most famous writing of the world's most honored and celebrated anthropologist. This book seemed to many to be an attack on liberal values; anthropologists believed that it was a concerted assault on the reliability and conceptual structure of cultural anthropology in the name of 'sociobiology.' The Reader canvasses these and other issues by assembling, in readable form, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University Press of America
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780819177216
SKU
V9780819177216
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for The Samoa Reader
...an extremely important and valuable book. It brings together all the critical articles, letters, book reviews, letters to editors and articles, as well as unpublished letters and documents that deal with the controversy....This is required reading for anyone interested in the Mead-Freeman...
George N. Appell, Brandeis University A wonderful collection of intellectual arguments and positions. The role of biological ... Read more
George N. Appell, Brandeis University A wonderful collection of intellectual arguments and positions. The role of biological ... Read more