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. By examining hitherto unpublished correspondence between Mead, her mentor Franz Boas and othersas well as the sworn testimony of Faapuaa Faam, one of Meads traveling companions of 1926Freeman provides compelling evidence that one of the most influential anthropological studies of the twentieth century was unwittingly based on the mischievous joking of the investigators 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 Meads Boasian training set her up to be hoaxedand set others up to accept her conclusions. In The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman conducts a detailed historical analysis of Margaret Meads Samoan researches and of her training in New York by Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict. Stock ID #159521 Maps, black and white illustrations, 279pp, appendix, notes, glossary, index, a very good hardback in dustjacket. FREEMAN, DEREK Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead.Īn Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Researches.
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