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“O Rose thou art sick!” A Rejoinder to Weiner, Schwartz, Holmes, Shore, and Silverman 1
Author(s) -
FREEMAN DEREK
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1984.86.2.02a00160
Subject(s) - samoan , archipelago , thou , american samoa , anthropology , residence , history , foundation (evidence) , sociology , ethnology , archaeology , demography , theology , philosophy , linguistics
Derek Freeman (Ph.D. Cantab. 1953) is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University, and the Foundation Professor of Anthropology and Academic Pro‐Chancellor of the University of Samoa. He has specialized in Samoan studies for over forty years, has worked in all parts of the Samoan archipelago, and during six different visits to Samoa has spent over six years in residence there between 1940 and 1984. He has also carried out intensive field research among the Iban of western Borneo.