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1 y separately published work icon Contemporary Literature 1968 Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , Z962462 1968 periodical (12 issues) Contemporary Literature publishes essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field
1 2 y separately published work icon Truth's Fool : Derek Freeman and the War Over Cultural Anthropology Peter J. Hempenstall , Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2017 13512761 2017 single work biography

'The complicated man behind a public sensation

'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 criticism of 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.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Natural Eloquence : Women Re-Inscribe Science Barbara T Gates (editor), Ann B Shteir (editor), Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press , 1997 Z928753 1997 multi chapter work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 1960 Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1960-1967 Z962464 1960 periodical
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