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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.

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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.
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Wikipedia: Derek Freeman
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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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