Truth's Fool : Derek Freeman and His War with Anthropology /

In 1983 New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman ignited a ferocious controversy when he denounced the research of Margaret Mead, a world-famous public intellectual who had died five years earlier. Freeman's claims caught the attention of popular media, converging with other vigorous cultural d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hempenstall, Peter J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mead, Margaret > 1901-1978
Freeman, Derek > 1916-2001
Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978.
Freeman, Derek.
Freeman, Derek
Rezeption
Kulturanthropologie
Kontroverse
Ethnologie
Diskussion
Anthropologists.
Anthropologues > Nouvelle-Zelande > Biographies.
Anthropologists > New Zealand > Biography.
New Zealand.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Freeman show
  • Part I.A heretical life
  • The man-most-likely-to
  • Preparing for a heretical life
  • Mr. Southeast Asia or Mr. Pacific?
  • "My Kierkegaardian earthquake"
  • Remaking himself
  • Face-to-face with the incubus
  • "The trouble with Derek is ..."
  • On the edge
  • Part II. The Mead thing
  • A not-so-simple journey
  • The banquet of consequences
  • Hunting heretics
  • "We are kin to all that lives"
  • Conclusion: Truth's fool?

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