The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree
... of falsehood. Ethnographies can contain information that is wrong, whether through deliberate falsification or otherwise. Although Raoul Naroll and other hologeistic anthropologists working with the Human Relations Area Files have not been primarily concerned with ethnographic disagreement, they do ...
... of falsehood. Ethnographies can contain information that is wrong, whether through deliberate falsification or otherwise. Although Raoul Naroll and other hologeistic anthropologists working with the Human Relations Area Files have not been primarily concerned with ethnographic disagreement, they do ...
A History of Anthropology
... French field method differed from the ideals of participant observation that were promoted at the LSE and that were soon the accepted practice in both Britain and America. The French routinely employed native assistants and interpreters, and related to their informants in amore businesslike way tha ...
... French field method differed from the ideals of participant observation that were promoted at the LSE and that were soon the accepted practice in both Britain and America. The French routinely employed native assistants and interpreters, and related to their informants in amore businesslike way tha ...
history of anthro pt 2
... able to turn, made newly and vividly selfconscious and self-critical, to judge anew and perhaps fashion differently the education we give our children (1928: 13) ...
... able to turn, made newly and vividly selfconscious and self-critical, to judge anew and perhaps fashion differently the education we give our children (1928: 13) ...
Coming of Age in Samoa
Coming of Age in Samoa is a book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. First published in 1928, the book launched Mead as a pioneering researcher and as the most famous anthropologist in the world. Since its first publication, Coming of Age in Samoa was the most widely read book in the field of anthropology until Napoleon Chagnon's Yanomamö: The Fierce People overtook it. The book has sparked years of ongoing and intense debate and controversy on questions pertaining to society, culture, and science. It is a key text in the nature and nurture debate, as well as in discussions on issues relating to family, adolescence, gender, social norms, and attitudes. Although Mead's work has been very influential some of her most significant claims about Samoan culture have been criticized and contradicted by subsequent research. Particularly the anthropologist Derek Freeman has contested many of Mead's claims, and argued that she was hoaxed into counterfactually believing that Samoan culture had more relaxed sexual norms than Western culture.