Margaret mead samoa coming of age6/23/2023 The ensuing controversy has raised questions not just about the stature of Margaret Mead but about the mission of anthropology and the present-day implications of the debate over “nature versus nurture,” or biology versus culture, that dominated anthropology during the first half of this century.įreeman, professor of anthropology emeritus at the Australian National University, begins by telling the story of a bright young Margaret Mead who traveled to primitive Samoa in 1925 to discern whether Samoans were significantly similar or dissimilar in disposition to Western, “civilized” peoples. Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth.ĭerek Freeman’s refutation of one of the heroes of American academia has incited responses from many angry social scientists.
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