Ashley Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg ; born June 28, 1905 in London , Great Britain, † November 26, 1999 in Princeton , New Jersey), was a British-American anthropologist and humanist . He became known for his publications on human evolution, gender and developmental psychology and for his critical examination of the concept of race . In 1950 he became a reporter for the UNESCO Statement on Race .
After childhood in the East End of London, Ashley Montagu began studying psychology and anthropology at the University College London and the London School of Economics at the age of 17 . a. with Karl Pearson , Charles Spearman , Grafton Elliot Smith , Charles Gabriel Seligman and Bronisław Malinowski . After graduating, he moved to Columbia University in New York, where he did his doctorate in 1936 under Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict on the ideas of reproduction among the Australian Aborigines . From 1941 to 1945 he headed the anthropological faculty at Rutgers University . He had lived in Princeton since 1949.
Works (selection)
Montagu has published around 50 books.
His most famous works include
- Coming into being. London 1937,
- Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (1942), a rejection of the racial theories of the time,
- Body contact ( Touching: The Human Significance of The Skin from 1971), a study of the importance of the skin as a tactile organ for human social development,
- The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity , a study on the case of Joseph Merrick (also 1971) and
- The Natural Superiority of Women (1953).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ashley Montagu in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Ashley Montagu Institute (Engl.)
- The Ashley Montagu Resolution to End Genital Mutilation Worldwide
- Man's Most Dangerous Myth Full text on Archive.org
- Encyclopædia Britannica
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stevan Harnad: Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) , accessed August 17, 2015
- ↑ Who is Ashley Montagu? ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 20, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Montagu, Ashley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Montague Francis Ashley Montagu, Israel Ehrenberg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1999 |
| Place of death | Princeton, New Jersey , USA |