Ashley Montagu

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anthropologist author human humanist

Ashley Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and humanist known for his influential writings on race, gender, and the biological basis of human behavior.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anthropologist → author → human → humanist →
alsoKnownAs	Montagu Ashley Montagu → Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu →
birthName	Israel Ehrenberg →
citizenship	United Kingdom → United States of America →
countryOfBirth	United Kingdom →
countryOfDeath	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1905-06-28 →
dateOfDeath	1999-11-26 →
doctoralAdvisor	Franz Boas →
educatedAt	Columbia University → London School of Economics → University College London →
fieldOfWork	anthropology → humanism → social biology →
gender	male →
influenced	feminist theorists → humanist thinkers → social scientists studying race →
influencedBy	Charles Darwin → Franz Boas → Sigmund Freud →
knownFor	critique of the concept of race as a biological category → writings on gender → writings on race → writings on the biological basis of human behavior →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	cultural anthropology → scientific humanism →
name	Ashley Montagu →
notableWork	Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race → The Direction of Human Development → The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity → The Natural Superiority of Women → Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin →
occupation	lecturer → professor → writer →
placeOfBirth	London →
placeOfDeath	Princeton →
positionHeld	faculty member at New York University → faculty member at Rutgers University →
wroteAbout	cooperation and altruism in humans → human evolution → race as a social construct → sex and gender differences →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race →	author
Franz Boas →	influenced
Ashley Montagu →	name