The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock - Couverture rigide

Caton, Hiram

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0819177202 ISBN 13 : 9780819177209

Editeur : University Press of America, 1990

Synopsis

The Samoa Reader is a source book on the most extensive controversy in the history of anthropology, touched off by the publication of Derek Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. Freeman's book purported to refute the most famous writing of the world's most honored and celebrated anthropologist. This book seemed to many to be an attack on liberal values; anthropologists believed that it was a concerted assault on the reliability and conceptual structure of cultural anthropology in the name of "sociobiology." The Reader canvasses these and other issues by assembling, in readable form, the most cogent writings to come out of the controversy. This book is based on the study of unpublished sources, some of which are included.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819177202
• ISBN 13: 9780819177209
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 366
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible