Truth's Fool(English, Hardcover, Hempenstall Peter)

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Truth's Fool(English, Hardcover, Hempenstall Peter) is written by Hempenstall Peter and published by University of Wisconsin Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0299314502 (ISBN 10) and 9780299314507 (ISBN 13).

New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman ignited a ferocious controversy in 1983 when he denounced the research of Margaret Mead, a world-famous public intellectual who had died five years earlier. Freeman's claims caught the attention of popular media, converging with other vigorous cultural debates of the era. Many anthropologists, however, saw Freeman's strident refutation of Mead's best-selling Coming of Age in Samoa as the culmination of a forty-year vendetta. Others defended Freeman's critique, if not always his tone. Truth's Fool documents an intellectual journey that was much larger and more encompassing than Freeman's attack on Mead's work. It peels back the prickly layers to reveal the man in all his complexity. Framing this story within anthropology's development in Britain and America, Peter Hempenstall recounts Freeman's mission to turn the discipline from its cultural-determinist leanings toward a view of human culture underpinned by biological and behavioral drivers. Truth's Fool engages the intellectual questions at the center of the Mead?Freeman debate and illuminates the dark spaces of personal, professional, and even national rivalries.