An Australian anthropologist named Derek Freeman, who began his own field word in the archipelago fifteen years after Mead, and who between 1940 and 1981 spent a total of six years living intimately among Samoans, finally published in 1983 the first full analysis and critique of Mead's work, "Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth". Freeman's analysis has been characterized, correctly, as a "frontal attack". Indeed, the tone of this book is ultimately unforgiving and stridently polemical, and it suffers from an overly simplistic analysis of the intellectual context of Mead's work. It oversimplified Boas's stance as an anthropologist, for example, and it appears to exaggerate Mead's influence on the thinking and methodology of subsequent cultural anthropologists. But Freeman's more particular assertion, that Mead greatly overgeneralized from a limited set of data, looks correct".