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In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her discovery of a culture where free love flourished, and jealousy and adolescent turmoil were unknown. In this work Derek Freeman provides evidence that Mead made a series of errors in her analysis of the Samoan people. Over years of research, Freeman found the Samoan people — far from inhabiting an island paradise — were intensely competitive, with high rates of rape and murder, prizing virginity and were deeply intolerant of pre-marital sex.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Derek Freeman
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140261523
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Nature, Science
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