Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth

ISBN-10
0140225552
ISBN-13
9780140225556
Category
Social Science
Pages
379
Language
English
Published
1985-01
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Author
Derek Freeman

Description

In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology.

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