Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Derek Freeman
Born: August 15, 1916
Died: July 6, 2001 (aged 84)
Bio: John Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist best known for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work on Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa.
Known for:
- Report on the Iban of Sarawak (1955)
- Dilthey's Dream (2001)
- Iban agriculture (1955)







