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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review...an extremely important and valuable book. It brings together all the critical articles, letters, book reviews, letters to editors and articles, as well as unpublished letters and documents that deal with the controversy....This is required reading for anyone interested in the Mead-Freeman... -- George N. Appell, Brandeis University
A wonderful collection of intellectual arguments and positions. The role of biological factors in the realization of human action must be the liveliest topic in anthropology today. -- V. Reynolds, Oxford University
A wonderful collection of intellectual arguments and positions. The role of biological factors in the realization of human action must be the liveliest topic in anthropology today. -- V. Reynolds, Oxford University
...an extremely important and valuable book. It brings together all the critical articles, letters, book reviews, letters to editors and articles, as well as unpublished letters and documents that deal with the controversy....This is required reading for anyone interested in the Mead-Freeman... -- George N. Appell, Brandeis University
