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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, the most cogent writings to come out of the controversy. This book is based on the study of unpublished sources, some of which are included.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general

• Full title: Samoa Reader
• Subtitle: Anthropologists Take Stock
• Author: Hiram Caton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• EAN: 9780819177216
• ISBN: 0819177210
• ID: 04933980
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Weight: 481 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 149 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 1990

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