Paul Shankman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Shankman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Shankman |
| SIGNATURE | SHANKMAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Obituary: Alec John (Jack) Kelso (1930–2019)
Alec John "Jack" Kelso
Mead–Freeman Controversy on Samoa
In 1983, Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), setting off a controversy that has lasted into the second decade of the twenty‐first century. Freeman argued that Mead was wrong about Samoan sexual permissiveness and adolescence, stating that she had been fooled by the innocent jokes of two young Samoan women. Freeman also argued that Mead ignored the role of biology in human life. However, Fr…
The Mead–Freeman Controversy Continues: A Reply to Ian Jarvie
In the Mead–Freeman controversy, Ian Jarvie has supported much of Derek Freeman’s critique of Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, arguing that Samoan society was sexually repressive rather than sexually permissive, that Mead was “hoaxed” about Samoan sexual conduct, that Mead was an “absolute” cultural determinist, that Samoa was a definitive case refuting Mead’s “absolute” cultural determinism, that Mead’s book changed the direction of cultu…
In search of Derek Freeman
Truth’s Fool is a sympathetic biography of Derek Freeman, the anthropologist best known for his scathing critique of Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa. Hempenstall, a historian, chronicles Freeman’s life and work, including an appraisal of the Mead–Freeman controversy. Hempenstall is interested in Freeman’s ideas, motives, and intentions as well as his personal struggles. He argues that Freeman has been misunderstood, maligned, and vilified …
The Public Anthropology of Margaret Mead: Redbook, Women's Issues, and the 1960s
Margaret Mead was anthropology's most significant public voice during the twentieth century. Her monthly columns in Redbook magazine (1962-1978), which had a subscription base of more than 3 million women in the 1960s, were perhaps her most important public forum. These columns, coauthored with Rhoda Métraux, were sometimes in brief question-and-answer format but more often were lengthy thought pieces. An analysis of these longer columns on women…
Playlists: Cinematic Anthropology
This visual playlist is an eclectic mix of one documentary that pushes the envelope of the genre, two that examine climate change in the Pacific, two that are historical remembrances of the civil rights era, and one cult movie that is a guilty pleasure. Sweetgrass (2009): This exceptional film by
The "Fateful Hoaxing" of Margaret Mead: A Cautionary Tale
In the Mead-Freeman controversy, Derek Freeman's historical reconstruction of the alleged hoaxing of Margaret Mead in 1926 relied on three interviews with Fa'apua'a Fa'amū, Mead's "principal informant," who stated that she and another Samoan woman had innocently joked with Mead about their private lives. In turn, Freeman argued that Mead believed these jokes as the truth and that they were the basis for her interpretation of adolescent sex in Com…
The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
"In The Trashing of Margaret Mead, Paul Shankman explores the many dimensions of the Mead-Freeman controversy as it developed publicly and as it played out privately, including the personal relationships, professional rivalries, and larger-than-life personalities that drove it."--Back cover.
Virginity and Veracity: Rereading Historical Sources in the Mead-Freeman Controversy
In the Mead-Freeman controversy, Derek Freeman argued that historical sources support his view that the traditional values of the Samoan system of institutionalized virginity (or taupou system) were preserved and reinforced throughout the colonial era. A closer examination of two sources used by Freeman, authored by Augustin Krämer and Newton A. Rowe, demonstrates that the taupou system, as well as many of the values and practices associated with…
The FBI File of Leslie A. White
The "Exotic" and the "Domestic": Regions and Representation in Cultural Anthropology
Regional scholarship is an enduring feature of cultural anthropology. But how does work from different regions compare in terms of published scholarship? This article offers some preliminary answers based on a longitudinal study of ethnographic articles in major English-language journals over the past seven decades. The dominance of North America in the early decades of the 20th century has given way to articles on more
Culture, Biology, and Evolution: The Mead-Freeman Controversy Revisited
All Things Considered: A Reply to Derek Freeman
Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives
Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives. Philippe Descola and Gisli Pálsson. eds. New York: Routledge, 1996. 310pp
The Pacific Islands: Paths to the Present
Introduction - the region and its peoples. Part 1 Exploration, contact, and control: explorers, traders, and missionaries the tides of empire. Part 2 Toward independence and elsewhere: the catalyst of war patterns of political evolution. Part 3 The practice of politics: running the state challenges to constitutional order. Part 4 Coping with the outside world: constraints, assets, and initiatives international issues of island concern
Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and the Samoans. Martin Orans. Novato, CA
A Cultural Anthropologist's Cure for Writer's Block
The History of Samoan Sexual Conduct and the Mead-Freeman Controversy
SThe Mead-Freeman controversy over Samoan culture-especially Samoan sexual conduct-has provoked debate for more than a decade. A key issue involves the nature of the Samoan system of institutionalized virginity. Citing historical sources, Freeman has argued that the taupou system's restrictive code of sexual behavior permeated colonial Samoan culture. Yet a rereading of many of these sources indicates that sexual conduct was less restrictive and …
Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist Development in a Rural Society. Victoria S. LOCKWOOD
Migration and Health in a Small Society: The Case of Tokelau
The Tokelau Island Migrant Study: an introduction Part I: The homeland: The ecology and prehistory of Tokelau The history of Tokelau: 1841 to 1948 The neo-traditional social order in Tokelau Part II: The way to New Zealand: at home and abroad: Tokelau, New Zealand, and the United Nations: 1948 to 1984 Development and change on the atolls: 1967 to 1984 The migrants and their communities Part III: The comparative study of Tokelauan communities: Dem…
Amazonia: Road to the end of the forest. Produced by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 94 minutes. Released on videocassette by Filmakers Library, 1990. $495 (rental $100). Halting the fires. Produce…
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology . Roger Sanjek , ed.: Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research . William B. Shaffir and Robert A. Stebbi…
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Culture Contact, Cultural Ecology, and Dani Warfare
The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz [and Comments and Reply]
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
The History of Samoan Sexual Conduct and the Mead-Freeman Controversy
SThe Mead-Freeman controversy over Samoan culture-especially Samoan sexual conduct-has provoked debate for more than a decade. A key issue involves the nature of the Samoan system of institutionalized virginity. Citing historical sources, Freeman has argued that the taupou system's restrictive code of sexual behavior permeated colonial Samoan culture. Yet a rereading of many of these sources indicates that sexual conduct was less restrictive and …
The "Fateful Hoaxing" of Margaret Mead: A Cautionary Tale
In the Mead-Freeman controversy, Derek Freeman's historical reconstruction of the alleged hoaxing of Margaret Mead in 1926 relied on three interviews with Fa'apua'a Fa'amū, Mead's "principal informant," who stated that she and another Samoan woman had innocently joked with Mead about their private lives. In turn, Freeman argued that Mead believed these jokes as the truth and that they were the basis for her interpretation of adolescent sex in Com…
Le Rôti et le Bouilli: Lévi-Strauss Theory of Cannibalism1
In a recent article entitled "The Culinary Triangle," Lévi-Strauss contends that an analysis of cooking as a language will reveal certain structural oppositions in society. He predicts that the practice of cannibalism, which employs various modes of cooking, will also reveal such oppositions. An examination of Lévi-Strauss' argument and a test of his predictions indicate that, owing to theoretical and methodological weaknesses, his ideas on how b…
The Public Anthropology of Margaret Mead: Redbook, Women's Issues, and the 1960s
Margaret Mead was anthropology's most significant public voice during the twentieth century. Her monthly columns in Redbook magazine (1962-1978), which had a subscription base of more than 3 million women in the 1960s, were perhaps her most important public forum. These columns, coauthored with Rhoda Métraux, were sometimes in brief question-and-answer format but more often were lengthy thought pieces. An analysis of these longer columns on women…
Culture Contact, Cultural Ecology, and Dani Warfare
Culture, Biology, and Evolution: The Mead-Freeman Controversy Revisited
Virginity and Veracity: Rereading Historical Sources in the Mead-Freeman Controversy
In the Mead-Freeman controversy, Derek Freeman argued that historical sources support his view that the traditional values of the Samoan system of institutionalized virginity (or taupou system) were preserved and reinforced throughout the colonial era. A closer examination of two sources used by Freeman, authored by Augustin Krämer and Newton A. Rowe, demonstrates that the taupou system, as well as many of the values and practices associated with…
All Things Considered: A Reply to Derek Freeman
The samoan conundrum
Migration and Health in a Small Society: The Case of Tokelau
The Tokelau Island Migrant Study: an introduction Part I: The homeland: The ecology and prehistory of Tokelau The history of Tokelau: 1841 to 1948 The neo-traditional social order in Tokelau Part II: The way to New Zealand: at home and abroad: Tokelau, New Zealand, and the United Nations: 1948 to 1984 Development and change on the atolls: 1967 to 1984 The migrants and their communities Part III: The comparative study of Tokelauan communities: Dem…
On Semiotics and Science: Reply to Renner and Scholte
The Mead–Freeman Controversy Continues: A Reply to Ian Jarvie
In the Mead–Freeman controversy, Ian Jarvie has supported much of Derek Freeman’s critique of Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, arguing that Samoan society was sexually repressive rather than sexually permissive, that Mead was “hoaxed” about Samoan sexual conduct, that Mead was an “absolute” cultural determinist, that Samoa was a definitive case refuting Mead’s “absolute” cultural determinism, that Mead’s book changed the direction of cultu…
The FBI File of Leslie A. White
Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives
Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives. Philippe Descola and Gisli Pálsson. eds. New York: Routledge, 1996. 310pp
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology . Roger Sanjek , ed.: Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research . William B. Shaffir and Robert A. Stebbi…
Gourmet anthropology: The interpretive menu
(1985). Gourmet anthropology: The interpretive menu. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 241-248
Le Rôti et le Bouilli: Lévi-Strauss Theory of Cannibalism1
In a recent article entitled "The Culinary Triangle," Lévi-Strauss contends that an analysis of cooking as a language will reveal certain structural oppositions in society. He predicts that the practice of cannibalism, which employs various modes of cooking, will also reveal such oppositions. An examination of Lévi-Strauss' argument and a test of his predictions indicate that, owing to theoretical and methodological weaknesses, his ideas on how b…
Development and Change: Samoan Village Economy. BRIAN Lock-Wood
Migration and Underdevelopment: The Case of Western Samoa
Applied Anthropology: Development from Below: Anthropologists and Development Situations. David C. Pitt
Ecology, warfare, and politics in the New Guinea highlands
Mervyn Meggitt. Blood Is Their Argument: Warfare Among the Mae Enga Tribesmen of the New Guinea Highlands. Palo Alto: Mayfield, 1977. xii + 223 pp. Tables, figures, glossary, and index. $4.95, paper
Exiles and Migrants in Oceania. Michael D. Lieber
A journalistic odyssey through the third world
Richard Critchfield. Villages. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1981. x + 388 pp. Postscript, notes, and index. $17.95
The samoan conundrum
Cult and Conflict in Tropical Polynesia: A Study of Traditional Religion, Christianity and Nativistic Movements. Jukka Siikala
The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz [and Comments and Reply]
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
On Semiotics and Science: Reply to Renner and Scholte
On Geertz's Theoretical Program: A Reply to Davis
Gourmet anthropology: The interpretive menu
(1985). Gourmet anthropology: The interpretive menu. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 241-248
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Islands of History. Marshall Sahlins
Quest for the Real Samoa: The Mead/Freeman Controversy and Beyond . Lowell D. Holmes
Phases of Dependency in Western Samoa
Since the early 1970s, anthropologists and other social scientists have been studying dependency in the South Pacific. There are now a number of case studies of different types of dependency including agricultural exports, migration and remittances, foreign aid, tourism, and private foreign investment. There are also comparative studies of dependency in the region (Howard 1983; Howard 1984; Bertram and Watters 1985; Hamnett, et al 1984). Yet ther…
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Culture Contact, Cultural Ecology, and Dani Warfare
Amazonia: Road to the end of the forest. Produced by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 94 minutes. Released on videocassette by Filmakers Library, 1990. $495 (rental $100). Halting the fires. Produce…
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology . Roger Sanjek , ed.: Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research . William B. Shaffir and Robert A. Stebbi…
Migration and Health in a Small Society: The Case of Tokelau
The Tokelau Island Migrant Study: an introduction Part I: The homeland: The ecology and prehistory of Tokelau The history of Tokelau: 1841 to 1948 The neo-traditional social order in Tokelau Part II: The way to New Zealand: at home and abroad: Tokelau, New Zealand, and the United Nations: 1948 to 1984 Development and change on the atolls: 1967 to 1984 The migrants and their communities Part III: The comparative study of Tokelauan communities: Dem…
Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist Development in a Rural Society. Victoria S. LOCKWOOD
Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and the Samoans. Martin Orans. Novato, CA
A Cultural Anthropologist's Cure for Writer's Block
The History of Samoan Sexual Conduct and the Mead-Freeman Controversy
SThe Mead-Freeman controversy over Samoan culture-especially Samoan sexual conduct-has provoked debate for more than a decade. A key issue involves the nature of the Samoan system of institutionalized virginity. Citing historical sources, Freeman has argued that the taupou system's restrictive code of sexual behavior permeated colonial Samoan culture. Yet a rereading of many of these sources indicates that sexual conduct was less restrictive and …
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