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Race and Other Misadventures: Essays in Honor of Ashley Montagu in His Ninetieth Year
1 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1996
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April 17, 2010This book is misfiled. It is a festschrift in honor of Ashley Montague's 90th birthday, and is EDITED by Lieberman and Larry T Reynolds.
As the title suggests, this book concentrates mostly on Ashley Montague's 1942 book Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (qv), and, being a festschrift, the 23 articles by anthropoligists, sociologists, etc are mostly laudatory, rarely critical, and tend to neglect Ashley Montague's quite large body of other work.
As such, it's a useful introduction to Ashley Montague's impact as a teacher. For more detailed analysis of his work, it's probably best to go back to the texts themselves, and contemporary and later reviews and discussion.
As the title suggests, this book concentrates mostly on Ashley Montague's 1942 book Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (qv), and, being a festschrift, the 23 articles by anthropoligists, sociologists, etc are mostly laudatory, rarely critical, and tend to neglect Ashley Montague's quite large body of other work.
As such, it's a useful introduction to Ashley Montague's impact as a teacher. For more detailed analysis of his work, it's probably best to go back to the texts themselves, and contemporary and later reviews and discussion.
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