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The Mead-Freeman controversy draws to a close, with some answers to who was right and who was wrong. But, in the end, can anyone ever really understand cultures different from their own?
Co-hosts Kate Ellis and Doris Tulifau explore the perils and possibilities of the kind of fieldwork that defined Margaret Mead as an anthropologist. They provide answers to the Mead-Freeman controversy but also ask the questions that remain.
In this season finale, we circle back to the problems with coming of age � in Samoa and everywhere.
See the companion teaching units,�Intercultural Understanding,� �Using Ethnographic Methods,� and �Looking Back at Coming of Age.�
This episode is included in Season 6 of the SAPIENS podcast, which was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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