In "The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead, " Derek Freeman conducts a detailed historical analysis of Margaret Mead's Samoan researches and of her training in New York by Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict. By examining hitherto unpublished correspondence between Mead, her mentor Franz Boas and others--as well as the sworn testimony of Fa'apua'a Fa'am, one of Mead's traveling companions of 1926--Freeman provides compelling evidence that one of the most influential anthropological studies of the twentieth century was unwittingly ...
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In "The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead, " Derek Freeman conducts a detailed historical analysis of Margaret Mead's Samoan researches and of her training in New York by Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict. By examining hitherto unpublished correspondence between Mead, her mentor Franz Boas and others--as well as the sworn testimony of Fa'apua'a Fa'am, one of Mead's traveling companions of 1926--Freeman provides compelling evidence that one of the most influential anthropological studies of the twentieth century was unwittingly based on the mischievous joking of the investigator's informants.But "The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead" goes beyond a historical account of how the hoax took place; it is an examination of how Mead's Boasian training set her up to be hoaxed--and set others up to accept her conclusions. The book is more than a correction of scientific error: It is a crucial step toward rethinking the foundations of social science and the overly relativistic worldview of much of the modern world.
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