Truth's Fool: Derek Freeman and the War Over Cultural Anthropology

by Marlies Comjean (Translator), Peter J. Hempenstall (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2006

  $31.74

  New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman ignited a ferocious controversy in 1983 when he denounced the research of Margaret Mead, a world-famous public intellectual who had died five years earlier. Truth's Fool documents an intellectual journey that was much larger and more encompassing than Freeman's attack on Mead's work. It peels back the prickly layers to reveal the man in all his complexity.