====== MARGARET MEAD AND SAMOA: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth ======

**DEREK FREEMAN. Harvard University Press • Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England 1983**

**Contents -**

**[[Preface xi]]**

**I The Emergence of Cultural Determinism**

1 [[Galton, Eugenics, and Biological Determinism]] 3

2 [[Boas and the Distinction between Culture and Heredity]] 19

3 [[The Launching of Cultural Determinism]] 34

4 [[Boas Poses an Intractable Problem]] 50

**II Mead's Samoan Research**

 5 [[Mead Presents Boas with an Absolute Answer]] 65

 6 [[Mead's Depiction of the Samoans]] 82

7 [[The Myth Takes Shape]] 95

**III A Refutation of Meads Conclusions**

8 [[The Historical Setting of Mead's Research]] 113

9 [[Rank]] 131

10 [[Cooperation and Competition]] 141

11 [[Aggressive Behavior and Warfare]] 157

12 [[Religion: Pagan and Christian]] 174

13 [[Punishment]] 191

14 [[Childrearing]] 200

15 [[Samoan Character]] 212

16 [[Sexual Mores and Behavior]] 226

17 [[Adolescence]] 254

18 [[The Samoan Ethos]] 269

** IV Margaret Mead and the Boasian Paradigm**

19 [[Mead's Misconstruing of Samoa]] 281

20 [[Toward a More Scientific Anthropological Paradigm]] 294

[[Notes]] 305 

[[A Note on Orthography and Pronunciation]] 361

[[Glossary]] 363

[[Acknowledgments]] 367

Index 371


**Illustrations**

//Following page 178//

The islands of Ofu and Olosega viewed from Luma on the island of Ta'u.// Photo by the author.//

The island of Ta'u at about the time of Mead's stay there in 1925-1926.// Courtesy of the Bishop Museum.//

The naval medical dispensary on Ta'u.// Photo by the author.//

A Samoan round house.// Photo by the author.//

A// taupou,// or ceremonial virgin.// Photo by the author.//

Franz Boas in 1906.// Courtesy of the Bettmann Archive, Inc.//

Ruth Benedict in about 1925.// Courtesy of the Vassar College Library.//

Margaret Mead in the late 1920s.// Courtesy of the Bettmann Archive, Inc.//