Margaret Mead's work spans the entire development of "culture and personality" as an aproach, from Coming of Age in Samoa, an ethnography that incorporates the testing and personality profiles of adolescent girls, to her contributions to national character sutdy during World War II and her work on culture change after the War. The recent controversy raised by Derek Freeman over Mead's work in Samoa brings up issues of method, theory, and bias in anthropological field research.
Mead, Margaret. 1928. Coming of Age in Samoa. (1949. New York: Mentor) Chapters 1-7, 10, 11
Bock, Philip K. 1980. Continuities in Psychological Anthropology. San Francisco, CA: W.H. Freeman, pp. 57-138 (CFAL: GN502 B62) (2 copies on reserve)
Freeman, Derek. 1984. Margaret Mead and Samoa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press. Chapters 1-6, pp. 1-94 (CFAL GN671 S2F73 1983 - on reserve) (4 copies on reserve)
Weiner, et al. 1983. "Speaking in the Name of the Real: Freeman and Mead on Samoa." American Anthropologist 85:908-947 (3 copies on reserve)
Nardi, Bonnie. 1984. "The Height of Her Powers: Margaret Mead's Samoa." Feminist Studies 10(2):324-337 (7 copies on reserve)
Freeman, Derek. 1984. "O Rose Thou Art Sick! A Rejoinder to Weiner, Schwartz, Holmes, Shore, and Silverman." American Anthropologist 86(2):400-405 (6 copies on reserve)
Kardiner, Abram. 1961. They Studied Man. Cleveland OH: World Publishing Co., pp. 240-270 (1963. New York: Mentor, pp. 210-237) (CFAL: GN405 K3)
Mead, Margaret. 1953. National Character, pp. 642-667 in Anthropology Today, ed. by Alfred L. Kroeber. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press
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