History of Anthropology: Ashley Montagu

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Presentation regarding the popular presence of Anthropologist Ashley Montagu on popular tv talk shows in the 1970s

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2012 3-Societies MeetingPhiladelphia, PA

July 11, 2012Jennifer Brown

Department of AnthropologyUniversity of Pennsylvania

Ashley Montagu, 1931Ashley Montagu, 1931

Image from: http://msnowe.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/the-natural-superiority-of-women/

The $64,000 QuestionThe $64,000 Question

ReferencesReferences• Ashley Montagu Papers. American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia, PA.

• Ashley Montagu, 94, Anthropologist and Popular Author. November 29, 1999. New York Times.

• Marks, Jonathan. 2008. Race Across the Physical-Cultural Divide in American Anthropology in A New History of Anthropology. Blackwell Publishing. Malden, MA

• Montagu, M., & Martin, P. (1945). Is it True About Women?. Saturday Evening Post, 217(39), 22-73.

• Montagu, Ashley. 1951. Statement on race : an extended discussion in plain language of the UNESCO Statement by experts on race problems. New York: Schuman

• Sperling, Susan. 2008. “Ashley’s Ghost: McCarthyism, Science, and Human Nature” in Anthropology and the Dawn of the Cold War: the Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA. Pluto Press

Thank youThank you

My classmates in HSS 519

Professor M. Susan Lindee

The Archivists at the American Philosophical Society and the Paley Center for Media

The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program