The Mead-Freeman controversy reached its climax when scientists, scholars, and Samoans debated the nature of sexuality, culture, and truth.
Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological MythAt stake was the heart of an academic discipline and understandings of the nature of being human. Mead’s daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, launches a defense, and other anthropologists weigh in too.
We left Derek Freeman finally sending Margaret Mead a draft of his critique of her research. He’d spent almost two decades working on the project. After his time in Samoa, he was convinced that she’d gotten it wrong. Samoa wasn’t a place of sexual liberation where adolescents were free to come of age without storm and stress.
Mead’s work supported the latter, not only her research in Samoa but her later work in New Guinea, which was published in her book. That was one of the first books to explore what we now call gender identity. Bradd Shore comes in and talks about how biology was used in the early 20th century to bolster racial hierarchies and racism that ultimately led to Hitler’s ideology and the Holocaust and how Margaret Mead actually was involved in the campaign to promote culture as an alternative way of explaining human behavior rather than relying exclusively on human biology.
Archival audio: Remarkably, a search for Mead’s adolescent girls of the 1920s leads to the discovery more than 60 years later of Mead’s close associate and chief informant, 86-year-old Fa’apua’a Fa’amu. Her account will settle once and for all the controversy that has long surrounded Margaret Mead’s coming of age in Samoa., which Derek Freeman helped produce, he continued to make his case. For Freeman, this moment, when the film crew met with Fa’apua’a Fa’amu, it was revelatory.
Translator : Yes, she asked what we did after dark. We girls would pinch each other and tell her that we were out with the boys. We were only joking, but she took it seriously. As you know, Samoan girls are terrific liars and love making fun of people. But Margaret Mead thought it was all true.Freeman saw this as the sign he’d been looking for: Mead had been hoaxed. So he followed up by sending a researcher to conduct two additional interviews with Fa’amu in 1988 and 1993.
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