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 Ashley Montagu - 1905-1999 -  United States


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He is best known for his argument that aggression is not a natural human drive and for having discredited “race” as a specious and dangerous concept in the social sciences.


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1925 The Colour Question. Vincula (Journal of the University of Londons Student Union) Dec. 14: 66 only.

1926 Intelligence Tests and the Negro in America. Wasu (Journal of the West African Students Union of Great Britain) 1, no. 1:57.

(1937) 1938 Coming Into Being Among the Australian Aborigines. New York: Dutton. -- -> Includes a foreword by Bronislaw Malinowski,

1939 Race and Kindred Delusions. Equality 1, no. 7: 2024.

1940 The Soclo-biology of Man. Scientific Monthly 50:483490.

1940 MONTAGU, ASHLEY; and MERTON, ROBERT K. Crime and the Anthropologist. American Anthropologist 42:384408.

l941a The Concept of Race in the Light of Genetics. Journal of Heredity 32:243247.

1941b Nescience, Science, and Psycho-analysis. Psychiatry 4:4560.

1942a Mans Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.

1942b Nothing Can Be Said in Favor of Smoking. In Fact 4, no. 10:23.

1943 Edward Tyson, M.D., F.R.S., (16501708), and the Rise of Comparative Anatomy in England. Philadeiphia: American Philosophical Society.

1944 The African Origins of the American Negro and His Ethnic Composition. Scientific Monthly 58: 5865.

1945 An Introduction to Physical Anthropology. Springfield, Ill,: Thomas.

1946a Adolescent Sterility. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas.

1946b Racism, the Bomb, and the Peoples of the World. Asia and the Americas 46:533 535.

1947 MONTAGU, ASHLEY; and DOBZHANSKY, THEODOSIUS Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Mankind. Science 105:587590.

1948 Sex-order of Birth and Personality. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 18:351 353.

1950 Constitutional and Prenatal Factors in Infant and Child Health. Supplement 2, pages 130 in Problems of In fancy and Childhood. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation.

(1951) 1972 Statement on Race. 3d ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

1953a MONTAGU, ASHLEY (editor) The Meaning of Love. New York: Julian.

(1953b) 1974 The Natural Superiority of Women. Rev. ed. New York: Macmillan.

1956a The Annihilation of Privacy. Saturday Review Mar. 31:911, 32.

1956b The Biosocial Nature of Man. New York: Grove Press.

1958 Are We Forgetting How to Eat? House and Garden 114:178179.

1959 Human Heredity. New York: World Publishing.

1959 MONTAGU, ASHLEY; and STEEN, EDWIN B. Anatomy and Physiology. 2 vols. New York: Barnes & Noble.

1960 A Handbook of Anthropometry. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas.

1962 MONTAGU, ASHLEY (editor) Culture and the Evolution of Man. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

1964 The Concept of Race. New York: Free Press.

1974 Culture and Human Development. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

1975 MONTAGU, ASHLEY (editor) Race and IQ. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

1976 The Nature of Human Aggression. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.


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