Confronting the Margaret Mead legacy: scholarship, empire, and the South Pacific

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Anthropologists in search of a culture : Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and all the rest of us / Eleanor Leacock -- Leaving a record for others : an interview with Nahau Rooney / Angela Gilliam -- Margaret Mead from a cultural-historical perspective / Lenora Foerstel -- The stigma of New Guinea : reflections on anthropology and anthropologists / Warilea Iamo -- Margaret Mead's contradictory legacy / Anglea Gilliam and Lenora Foerstel -- For an independent Kanaky / Susanna Ounei -- The United States anthropologist in Micronesia : toward a counter-hegemonic study of sapiens / Glenn Alcalay -- Anthropology and authoritarianism in the Pacific Islands / Simione Durutalo -- Tugata : culture, identity, and commitment / John D. Waiko -- Papua New Guinea and the geopolitics of knowledge production / Angela Gilliam.;A multicultural outlook scrutinizing Mead's impact on Western anthropology.