Freeman, Derek
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- Summary
- John Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist known for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work on Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa. His attack "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology." Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][3][4][5]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1916 [2]
- 1916-08-15 [5]
- Birth Place
- Wellington (Nouvelle-Zélande) [3]
- Wellington [5]
- Died
- 2001 [2]
- 2001-07-06 [5]
- Death Place
- Canberra (Australie) [3]
- Canberra [5]
- Country
- New Zealand [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [5]
- Profession
- Ethnologe [2]
- Employer
- University of Otago [5]
- Educated at
- Victoria University of Wellington [5]
- King's College [5]
- Country of Education
- New Zealand [5]
- United Kingdom [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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