Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth

By Derek Freeman

Book Overview

In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140225552
• ISBN13: 9780140225556
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"