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Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg; June 28, 1905 – November 26, 1999) was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.
Jun 24, 2024 · Ashley Montagu (born June 28, 1905, London, Eng.—died Nov. 26, 1999, Princeton, N.J.) was a British American anthropologist noted for his works popularizing anthropology and science.
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Jul 3, 2017 · Ashley Montagu – born Israel Ehrenberg – was born in 1905 into a Jewish immigrant family living in London’s East End. The cynical world in which he lived sparked a career’s worth of interest into human behaviour.
Ashley Montagu, born Israel Ehrenberg in East London in 1905, was one of those rare men of learning who succeeded in making substantive scholarly contributions to their academic disciplines while at the same time maintaining contact with the educated layman, indeed contributing substantively to the latter’s learning.
- Emily Mace
Jun 8, 2018 · Anthropologist and educator Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) focused on human bio-social evolution and maintained throughout his long career that cultural phenomena are not genetically predetermined. In more than 50 books published for both an academic and general readership, Montagu broadened understanding of human social evolution.
Nov 28, 1999 · Ashley Montagu, an anthropologist known for combining rigorous scientific research with witty, accessible writing, has died after a long illness. He was 94. Family members said that Mr. Montagu...
Nov 29, 1999 · Ashley Montagu, the London-born anthropologist and popular author whose energy, erudition and showmanship brought genetics, paleontology and other topics in the life sciences to a wide...
