Papers of Derek Freeman [manuscript]. 1949-1951; 1957-1958.

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Papers of Derek Freeman [manuscript]. 1949-1951; 1957-1958.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223349092

Includes Freeman's Iban field note books, 1949-51 and 1957-58.

25 MS boxes + 1 small box.

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Freeman, Derek

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Prominent Australian anthropologist and author of the controversial book Margaret Mead and Samoa (1983), Derek Freeman was born in New Zealand in 1916 and educated at the University of London and Cambridge University. He received a masters (1948) for research on Samoa and a doctorate (1953) for fieldwork among the Iban of Borneo. Freeman was a professor at Australian National University and professor emeritus at ANU's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Beginning in 1983 he stirred int...