Truth's Fool: Derek Freeman and the War Over Cultural Anthropology

by Peter J Hempenstall and Peter J. Hempenstall

New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman ignited a ferocious controversy in 1983 when he denounced the research of Margaret Mead, a world-famous public intellectual who had died five years earlier. Freeman's claims caught the attention of popular media, converging with other vigorous cultural debates of the era. Many anthropologists, however, saw Freeman's strident refutation of Mead's best-selling Coming of Age in Samoa as the culmination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299314502
• ISBN13: 9780299314507
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"