# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-freeman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T16:44:24.575Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-freeman"
name: "Derek Freeman"
slug: "derek-freeman"
description: "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.\""
tagline: "New Zealand anthropologist (1916-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_Freeman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-08-15"
deathDate: "2001-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.689022666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Derek Freeman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Freeman"
    title: "Derek Freeman"
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  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._Freeman"
    title: "Derek J. Freeman"
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    title: "Derek Freeman"
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    title: "Фриман, Дерек"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump