Samoan Rainbow "Truth is merely common sense, say the naïve realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of - a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?" (Abbey, 11). To define the nature of culture it seems at first, to be a simple task. However, finding and holding the true essence of a culture is like pinpointing Abbey's rainbow. It becomes clear to me the misunderstandings between Margaret Mead …showed first 75 words of 1543 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1543 total…She uses her paper not only to discuss the Mead-Freeman controversy, but also to talk about the quest for any truth that ever existed. Works Cited Abbey, Edward. A Voice Crying in the Wilderness; notes from a secret journal. St. Martin's Press, New York. 1989 Leacock, Eleanor. 1992. Anthropologists in Search of a culture: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and All the Rest of us. In Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy, Eds. Lenora Foerstel and Anglea Gilliam. Philadelphia