Coming of Age in Samoa (English Wikipedia)

Mead, Margaret (1928). "Foreword by Franz Boas". Coming of Age in Samoa. William Morrow Paperbacks. pp. xiii–xv. ISBN 978-0688050337. Retrieved 3 October 2014. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Mead, Margaret (1928). "Introduction". Coming of Age in Samoa. William Morrow Paperbacks. pp. 1–14. ISBN 978-0688050337. Retrieved 3 October 2014. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Mead, Margaret (1928). Coming of Age in Samoa. William Morrow Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0688050337. Retrieved 3 October 2014. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Freeman, Derek (1983). Margaret Mead and Samoa. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-54830-2.
Orans, Martin (1996). Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and the Samoans. Chandler and Sharp publications in anthropology and related fields. Chandler & Sharp. ISBN 0883165643.

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Felder, Deoborah G. (2003). A Century of Women : The Most Influential Events in Twentieth-Century Women's History. Citadel Press. pp. 135, 135. ISBN 978-0-8065-2526-6. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
Pinker, Steven (June 22, 2009). How the Mind Works. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393334777. Retrieved 15 September 2014. Margaret Mead disseminated the incredible claim that Samoans have no passions – no anger between parents and children or between a cuckold and seducer, no revenge, no lasting love or bereavement, ... no adolescent turmoil. Derek Freeman and other anthropologists found that Samoan society in fact had widespread adolescent resentment and deliquency, a cult of virginity, frequent rape, reprisals by rape victim's families, ... sexual jealousy and strong religious feeling.

Moss, Aaron (4 December 2023). "Public Domain Day 2024 is Coming: Here's What to Know". Copyright Lately. Retrieved 1 January 2024.

Wiker, Benjamin (19 May 2002). "Margaret Mead's flights of fancy in Samoa". National Catholic Register. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.

Levine, Robert A. (28 May 2010). "Cutting a controversy down to size". Science. 328 (5982): 1108. doi:10.1126/science.1189202. S2CID 162343521.
Freeman, Derek (1999). ""All made of fantasy": A rejoinder to Paul Shankman". American Anthropologist. 100 (4): 972–983. doi:10.1525/aa.1998.100.4.972. JSTOR 681822. In 1943, knowing what I did of the rite of fa'amasei'au, I felt certain that Mead's account was in error and could not have come from any Samoan source.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (1984). "The Margaret Mead controversy: Culture, biology, and anthropological inquiry". Human Organization. 43 (1): 85–93. doi:10.17730/humo.43.1.362253166r6173m4. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013.
Dreger, Alice (14 September 2011). "The trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an anthropological controversy". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 40 (6): 1341–1343. doi:10.1007/s10508-011-9843-0. ISSN 0004-0002. S2CID 142908823.
Shankman, Paul (1 February 2013). "The "fateful hoaxing" of Margaret Mead: A cautionary tale". Current Anthropology. 54 (1): 51–70. doi:10.1086/669033. ISSN 0011-3204. S2CID 146631601.
Shankman, Paul (1996). "The history of Samoan sexual conduct and the Mead-Freeman controversy". American Anthropologist. 98 (3): 555–567. doi:10.1525/aa.1996.98.3.02a00090.

Frank Heimans (1987). Margaret Mead and Samoa (video). Archived from the original on 2021-12-13.

Freman, Derek (March 1972). "Social Organization of Manu A (1930 and 1969) by Margaret Mead: Some errata". Journal of the Polynesian Society. 81 (1): 70–78. JSTOR 20704828.
Freeman, Derek (1999). ""All made of fantasy": A rejoinder to Paul Shankman". American Anthropologist. 100 (4): 972–983. doi:10.1525/aa.1998.100.4.972. JSTOR 681822. In 1943, knowing what I did of the rite of fa'amasei'au, I felt certain that Mead's account was in error and could not have come from any Samoan source.

"Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture: Afterward: Derek Freeman and Margaret Mead". Library of Congress. 30 November 2001. Retrieved 14 February 2021. "Mead ignored violence in Samoan life, did not have a sufficient background in – or give enough emphasis to – the influence of biology on behavior, did not spend enough time in Samoa, and was not familiar enough with the Samoan language."

Henrie, Mark; et al. (Fall 1999). "The Fifty Worst (and Best) Books of the Century" (PDF). The Intercollegiate Review. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 7, 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2014. So amusing did the natives find the white woman's prurient questions that they told her the wildest tales and she believed them! Mead misled a generation into believing that the fantasies of sexual progressives were an historical reality on an island far, far away.

John Horgan (12 November 2000). "Hearts of Darkness". New York Times. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
Shaw, John (5 August 2001). "Derek Freeman, who challenged Margaret Mead on Samoa, dies at 84". The New York Times.

OpenLibrary.org. "Not even wrong by Martin Orans | Open Library". Open Library. Retrieved 2025-05-17.

"The Trashing of Margaret Mead". Savage Minds. 13 October 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2017.

Levine, Robert A. (28 May 2010). "Cutting a controversy down to size". Science. 328 (5982): 1108. doi:10.1126/science.1189202. S2CID 162343521.
Dreger, Alice (14 September 2011). "The trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an anthropological controversy". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 40 (6): 1341–1343. doi:10.1007/s10508-011-9843-0. ISSN 0004-0002. S2CID 142908823.
Shankman, Paul (1 February 2013). "The "fateful hoaxing" of Margaret Mead: A cautionary tale". Current Anthropology. 54 (1): 51–70. doi:10.1086/669033. ISSN 0011-3204. S2CID 146631601.

Wiker, Benjamin (19 May 2002). "Margaret Mead's flights of fancy in Samoa". National Catholic Register. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
Henrie, Mark; et al. (Fall 1999). "The Fifty Worst (and Best) Books of the Century" (PDF). The Intercollegiate Review. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 7, 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2014. So amusing did the natives find the white woman's prurient questions that they told her the wildest tales and she believed them! Mead misled a generation into believing that the fantasies of sexual progressives were an historical reality on an island far, far away.

Dreger, Alice (14 September 2011). "The trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an anthropological controversy". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 40 (6): 1341–1343. doi:10.1007/s10508-011-9843-0. ISSN 0004-0002. S2CID 142908823.
Shankman, Paul (1 February 2013). "The "fateful hoaxing" of Margaret Mead: A cautionary tale". Current Anthropology. 54 (1): 51–70. doi:10.1086/669033. ISSN 0011-3204. S2CID 146631601.

Frank Heimans (1987). Margaret Mead and Samoa (video). Archived from the original on 2021-12-13.