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Wikipedia: Derek Freeman
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The English-language Wikipedia biography of Derek Freeman, the New Zealand anthropologist whose books challenged Margaret Mead's account of Samoan adolescence, and of the scholarly reassessment that followed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Tier 3 (secondary reference): a general encyclopedia biography, used to source Freeman's own side of a live scholarly controversy rather than to adjudicate it; later scholarship (Shankman 2009) is described on the same page as finding Freeman himself had cherry-picked data. Citation
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he did feel intimidated by Mead even as he was administering his harsh verbal critique of her work
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