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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 CONTENTS 8 Foreword 10 Preface 20 Acknowledgments 34 1: Anthropologists in Search of a Culture: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and All the Rest of Us 38 2: Leaving a Record for Others: An Interview with Nahau Rooney 66 3: Margaret Mead from a Cultural-Historical Perspective 90 4: The Stigma of New Guinea: Reflections on Anthropology and Anthropologists 110 5: Margaret Mead's Contradictory Legacy 136 6: For an Independent Kanaky 192 7: The United States Anthropologist in Micronesia: Toward a Counter-Hegemonic Study of Sapiens 206 8: Anthropology and Authoritarianism in the Pacific Islands 238 9: Tugata: Culture, Identity, and Commitment 266 10: Papua New Guinea and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production 300 Publisher:Temple University Press,Published:1994,ISBN:9781439900956,Language:English,OCLC:729293163 "...valuable information, ideas, and contrasts." —Choice The legendary Margaret Mead changed Americans' views of themselves by relating information collected from remote peoples to our society—a society that she did not consider necessarily to be the pinnacle of human development. However, Mead and her followers have been criticized for promulgating sensat

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Author
Foerstel, Lenora;Gilliam, Angela;Mead, Margaret
Publisher
Temple University Press Project MUSE
Published
1992
Language
EN
ISBN
9786612046988
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Anthropology, Sociology

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