Derek Freeman (August 15, 1916, Wellington - July 6, 2001, Canberra) [3] is a New Zealand anthropologist . In 1983, he published the book Margaret Mead and Samoa : Building and Debunking the Anthropological Myth (Freeman, 1983), which criticized Margaret Mead's canonical and sensational (at one time) research on sexuality in Samoa’s traditional society and cited in her work 1928 "Coming of Age in Samoa." Freeman refutes many of Mead’s claims, but his criticism has also been criticized, as it has created schism and discussion in the scientific community.
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Biography
Born in New Zealand in the family of an Australian and New Zealand. The mother was engaged in the education of her son and remained for him a close person for life. In 1934 he went to college. In 1937 he received a teacher certificate. In 1938, at a seminar, he became interested in the work of Mead.
He owned “one of Canberra ’s largest book collections” [4] , after his death, the scientist’s personal library ceased to be one.
The play “Heretic” (1996) is devoted to his research and position on the work of Mead.
Selected Works
- 1953 Family and Kin among the Iban of Sarawak . Cambridge University.
- 1955 Iban agriculture; a report on the shifting cultivation of hill rice by the Iban of Sarawak , Colonial Office Research Study No. 19 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office)
- 1957. Iban pottery. Sarawak Museum Journal 8
- 1957 The family system of the Iban of Borneo. In Jack Goody (ed.) The developmental cycle in domestic groups (Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology, No. 1), pp. 15-52. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 1960 The Iban of Western Borneo. In GP Murdock (ed.) Social structure in Southeast Asia , pp. 65-87. Chicago: Quadrangle Books.
- 1961. [review of] Social Stratification in Polynesia. by Marshall D. Sahlins, Man , Vol. 61, (Aug. 1961), pp. 146-148
- 1961. On the Concept of the Kindred. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 91, No. 2, 1961. pp. 192-220
- 1964. Some Observations on Kinship and Political Authority in Samoa. American Anthropologist , 66: 553-568
- 1965. Samoa: A Matter of Emphasis. American Anthropologist , 67: 1534-1537.
- 1966. Social anthropology and the scientific study of human behavior. Man . New Series, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Sep. 1966), pp. 330—342
- 1968. Thunder, Blood, and the Nicknaming of God's Creatures. Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 37: 353-399
- 1969. The Sea Dayaks of Borneo before White Rajah Rule. The journal of asian studies
- 1970. Report on the Iban. LSE Monographs in Social Anthropology No. 41. London: Athlone Press (first published in 1955)
- 1970. Human nature and culture. In Man and the New Biology . Australian National University Press, Canberra
- 1971. Aggression: instinct or symptom? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry . Jun; 5 (2): 66-77.
- 1973. Darwinian Psychological Anthropology: A Biosocial Approach [with Comments and Reply] Current Anthropology Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 373–387
- 1974. The Evolutionary Theories of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer [with Comments and Replies] Current Anthropology . Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep. 1974), pp. 211—237
- 1977. Studies in Borneo Societies: Social Process and Anthropological Explanation. Man .
- 1980. Sociobiology: The 'antidiscipline' of anthropology. In Montagu, A. (ed.), Sociobiology Examined . Oxford University Press, New York.
- 1981 Some reflections on the nature of Iban society . Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
- 1981. The anthropology of choice: An ANZAAS presidential address given in Auckland, New Zealand, on 24 January 1979. Canberra Anthropology 4 (1): 82-100.
- 1983. Margaret Mead and Samoa: The making and unmaking of an anthropological myth . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-14-022555-2
- 1983. Inductivism and the test of truth: A rejoinder to Lowell D. Holmes and others. Canberra Anthropology 6 (2): 96-192. Special Volume: Fact and Context in Ethnography: The Samoa Controversy
- 1984. “O Rose thou art sick!” A Rejoinder to Weiner, Schwartz, Holmes, Shore, and Silverman. American Anthropologist , 86: 400-40
- 1984. Response [to Ala'ilima, Wendt and McDowell]. Pacific Studies 7 (2): 140—196.
- 1985. A reply to Ember's reflections on the Freeman-Mead controversy. American Anthropologist 87 (4): 910-917.
- 1985. Response to Reyman and Hammond. American Anthropologist 87 (2): 394-395.
- 1986. Rejoinder to Patience and Smith. American Anthropologist 88 (1): 162-167
- 1987. Comment on Holmes's "Quest for the real Samoa." American Anthropologist 89 (4): 930-935.
- 1987. Review of Quest for the real Samoa: The Mead / Freeman controversy and beyond, by Lowell D. Holmes. Journal of the Polynesian Society 96 (3): 392–395.
- 1989. Fa'apua'a and Margaret Mead. American Anthropologist 91: 1017-22.
- 1989. Holmes, Mead and Samoa. American Anthropologist 91 (3): 758-762.
- 1991. There's tricks i 'th' world: An historical analysis of the Samoan researches of Margaret Mead. Visual Anthropology Review 7 (1): 103-128.
- 1991. On Franz Boas and the Samoan researches of Margaret Mead. Current Anthropology 32 (3): 322-330.
- 1992. Paradigms in collision: The far-reaching controversy over the Samoan researches of Margaret Mead and its significance for the human sciences. Academic Questions Summer: 23-33.
- 1996. Derek Freeman: Re fl ections of a heretic. The Evolutionist (an internet-only magazine), London School of Economics, [1]
- 1997. Paradigms in collision: Margaret Mead's mistake and what it has done to anthropology. Skeptic 5: 66-73.
- 1998. The fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A historical analysis of her Samoan research . Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-3693-7
- 2001. “Words have no words for words that are not true”: A rejoinder to Serge Tcherkézoff. Journal of the Polynesian Society , 110 (3): 301-11
- 2001. Paradigms in collision, in Dilthey's dream . Canberra, Australia: Pandanus
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Tribute Archived January 16, 2006. ", ABC Science Show radio, July 14, 2001.
- ↑ Colin Steele, “Charles Stitz adds to our book history” , The Sydney Morning Herald , June 26, 2014.