{"product_id":"lightning-that-strikes-the-neighbors-house-9780299235840","title":"Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors' House","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eComing of Age in Samoa\u003c\/i\u003e as the culmination of a forty-year vendetta. Others defended Freeman's critique, if not always his tone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eTruth's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eTruth's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e engages the intellectual questions at the center of the Mead-Freeman debate and illuminates the dark spaces of personal, professional, and even national rivalries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Lantz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299235840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNick Lantz is a writer and editor in Madison, Wisconsin, and a former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of \u003ci\u003eWe Don't Know We Don't Know\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Breadloaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39988427620467,"sku":"9.7803E+12","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e11395d1-ebf1-4bbd-9c73-7ae3573796c3.jpg?v=1649771647","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/lightning-that-strikes-the-neighbors-house-9780299235840","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}