Paul听Shankman

  • Professor
  • (PH.D.
  • HARVARD
  • 1973)
Address

HALE 447

Office Hours

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by appointment, contact <shankman@colorado.edu>

Paul Shankman is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in Samoa, economic anthropology, political anthropology, theory, and Margaret Mead. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973 and has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado-抖阴传媒在线 since then. He has conducted fieldwork in Samoa since 1966 and has also worked with Pacific Islanders in the United States. For the past few decades, he has been involved in the Mead-Freeman controversy, written a number of articles on it, 听and authored a book titled听The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of and Anthropological Controversy听(2009). He has also authored a recent biography of Mead simply titled听Margaret Mead听(2021). Shankman is featured in a BBC documentary on the Mead-Freeman controversy (Tales from the Jungle: Margaret Mead) available on YouTube and in the recent听Sapiens听podcast series on Margaret Mead. He also teaches a course on the Holocaust.

Selected Publications:

  • 2013.听The 鈥淔ateful Hoaxing鈥 of Margaret Mead: A Cautionary Tale.听Current Anthropology 54 (1): 51-70.听PDF
  • 2009.听The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological听Controversy. University of Wisconsin Press.
  • 2009.听听Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman: What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?听Pacific Studies 32 (2-3): 202-221.听PDF
  • 2006.听Virginity and Veracity: Re-reading Historical Sources in the Mead-Freeman Controversy. Ethnohistory 听53 (3):478-505.听PDF
  • 2005.听Margaret Mead鈥檚 Other Samoa: Re-reading Social Organization of听Manu鈥檃.听Pacific Studies 28 (3/4):46-59.听PDF
  • 2004.听South Seas Confidential: The Politics of Interethnic Relationships in Colonial Samoa. In Victoria Lockwood, editor, Globalization and听Culture Change in the Pacific Islands. Upper Saddle River: NJ,听Pearson Prentice Hall. pp. 377-89.听PDF
  • 2001.听Interethnic Unions and the Regulation of Sex in Colonial Samoa,1830-1945. 听Journal of the Polynesian Society 110 (2):119-147.听PDF
  • 2000.听Culture, Biology and Evolution: The Mead-Freeman Controversy Revisited. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 29(5): 539-556.听PDF
  • 2000.听鈥淭he 鈥淓xotic鈥 and the 鈥淒omestic鈥: Regions and Representation in听Cultural Anthropology.鈥听听Human Organization 50(3):289-299,听(first author with Tracy B. Ehlers).听PDF
  • 1999.听Development, Sustainability, and the Deforestation of Samoa. 听Pacific Studies 22(3&4):167-188.听PDF
  • 1996.听The History of Sexual Conduct in Samoa and the Mead/Freeman Controversy. 听American Anthropologist 98(3): 555-567.听PDF
  • 1991.听Culture Contact, Cultural Ecology, and Dani Warfare.听Man 26(2): 299-321.听PDF