ABSTRACT
Even before Derek Freeman (1983) called Margaret Mead (1928) into question, as shown in Chapter 1 of this book, there was implicit objection to the conceptualisations that were launched by Mead’s work. By analysing The Children of the Counterculture, Rothchild and Wolf (1976) criticised the antiauthoritarian education based on Mead’s cultural theory. Other authors scrutinised processes of cultural destabilisation, be it from economic (Kohr, 1977), sociological (Höhn, 1988) or ecological (Weeber, 1990) perspectives. Fuchs (1992) presented a metaphorical case study in which he elaborated a rather implicit critique of our culture’s processes of functionalisation by looking at the changes regarding the understanding of the function of the heart in the course of cultural history.
