John Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist known for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work on Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa. His attack "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology."
Three Samoan girls photographed in 1902 forty years before Freeman's arrival in Samoa
The Old Sarawak Museum in Kuching, where Freeman destroyed an Iban carved statue.
Margaret Mead, whose conclusions regarding female sexuality in Samoa Freeman sought to refute.
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s.
Mead in 1948
Dr Margaret Mead, Australia, September 1951
Margaret Mead (1972)
Mead at New York Academy of Sciences, 1968