The fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead : a historical analysis of her Samoan researches.

Originally published: 1998.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Franz Boas: The "Incorrigible Idealist" -- 2. At Barnard: Studying with Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict -- 3. Funding the Samoan Research Project: A National Research Fellowship -- 4. Professional Researcher Status: A Bishop Museum Associate in Ethnology -- 5. In Honolulu: At the Bishop Museum -- 6. At the U.S. Naval Station, Tutuila, American Samoa -- 7. Ethnological Research in Pago Pago and Vaitogi -- 8. In Manu'a: The First Two Months -- 9. In Manu'a: After the Hurricane -- 10. In Fitiuta: "A Gold Mine, Ethnologically" -- 11. The Ides of March -- 12. Mead's Samoan Fieldwork in Retrospect -- 13. From Pago Pago to New York: Via Paris, London, and Rome -- 14. Coming of Age in Samoa and Boasian Culturalism -- 15. The Mythic Process -- Afterword -- Appendix. From the Correspondence of Franz Boas and Margaret Mead, 1925-1926 -- Notes -- Chronology -- Note on the Samoan Language -- Glossary -- Index.