Derek Freeman
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New Zealand anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist known for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work on Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa. His attack "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology."
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