Quest for the Real Samoa

The Mead/Freeman Controversy and Beyond

Lowell D. Holmes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

211 Seiten

1988
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89789-162-2 (ISBN)

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Mr. Holmes' study is . New York Times Book Review

Thanks to Holmes' compelling review of the `great debate,' we see [all these things] more clearly because he is acting as more than just an informed guide to the facts and the issues;

Mr. Holmes' study is . . . the basic stuff of competent ethnography, that combination of science and art in which the details of daily life are systematically observed, analyzed and constructed into a cultural account. . . He concludes that Margaret Mead was essentially correct in her depiction of coming of age in Samoa in 1925, concerned as she was to compare it with adolescence in the United States at that time. New York Times Book Review

Thanks to Holmes' compelling review of the `great debate,' we see [all these things] more clearly because he is acting as more than just an informed guide to the facts and the issues; he is providing an insightful exposition on the nature of anthropological inquiry. Science Book & Films

Preface Mead's Coming of Age Restudies: Use and Misuse The Culture of the Village of Tau--1954 Social Organization: Family and Fono Samoan Religion The Life Cycle The Factor of Change Assessing Margaret Mead Psychometric Assessment Assessing Derek Freeman Postscript Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.1988
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-89789-162-7 / 0897891627
ISBN-13	978-0-89789-162-2 / 9780897891622
Zustand	Neuware