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Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist whose work focused in part on social life and kinship among the Iban of Borneo. He became widely known for Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth (1983), which challenged Mead's interpretation of adolescent experience in Samoa and prompted a major dispute over field methods, cultural interpretation, and the reliability of anthropological evidence.
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Derek Freeman scores 6.88/10 (Fair) on Lunoo, making it rated in the Anthropologist category. Mead critique generated enormous debate and useful methodological scrutiny, but claims of decisive refutation were challenged by historians, anthropol...
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