This post is in response to Boys Will Be Boys—Even If Raised Believed to Be Girls By Christopher Badcock Ph.D. The post to which this is an addition got an astonishingly large amount of attention, and ...

Paul Shankman hopes his new book will lay to rest one of the most divisive and protracted debates in the history of anthropology: the one that Derek Freeman sparked in the early 1980s when he ...

In 1928, Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa. An immediate success, this slender volume established Mead as the most famous and most influential anthropologist of the 20th century. For ...

“A 24-year-old flapper ventures alone to live amongst savages in the South Pacific,” the tabloids trumpeted. It was 1925 when anthropologist Margaret Mead left Columbia University in New York to study ...

Margaret Mead, a prominent anthropologist and author, helped lay the groundwork for the 1960s sexual revolution in the United States by studying indigenous peoples in Samoa and New Guinea. Mead was an ...

Derek Freeman, who helped modernize anthropology when he challenged Margaret Mead’s famous 1920s studies of adolescent sexuality in Samoa, has died. He was 84. Freeman, an emeritus professor of ...

Mead’s work in Samoa, when she was aged just 24, has been credited with influencing the 1960s sexual revolution and the feminist movement. She was, however, not without her critics. Another ...

LOOKING like a cross between a stern schoolmarm and an impish witch, the short (5 ft. 2 in.), broad-beamed woman in a floor-length, toga-like gown marched onto the stage at the American Museum of ...

Just how far should scholars go in debunking intellectual opponents? Is persistence, to the point of ignoring one’s own pursuits, a sign of mental instability? The case of Derek Freeman, the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Margaret Mead began making ...