Background
Ashley Montagu was born as Israel Ehrenberg on June 28, 1905, in London, United Kingdom. He was a son of Charles Ehrenberg and Mary Plot Ehrenberg.
Cowper St, Old Street, London EC2A 4SH, UK
Central Foundation Boys' School where Ashley Montagu studied.
Gower St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6BT, UK
University College London where Ashley Montagu received a diploma in psychology.
Piazza di San Marco, 4, 50121 Firenze FI, Italy
The University of Florence where Ashley Montagu studied.
116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
Columbia University where Ashley Montagu received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Albert Einstein and Ashley Montagu.
Ashley Montagu in 1950s.
(This volume brings together all the evidence bearing upon...)
This volume brings together all the evidence bearing upon the procreative beliefs of the Australian Aborigines and subjects it to a scientific examination in the light of biological, social and psychological research.
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Being-Among-Australian-Aborigines/dp/0710079338/?tag=2022091-20
1938
(Making revolutionary arguments upon its first publication...)
Making revolutionary arguments upon its first publication in 1953, The Natural Superiority of Women stands as one of the original feminist arguments against biological determinism. An iconoclast, Montagu wielded his encyclopedic knowledge of physical anthropology in critique of the conventional wisdom of women as the "weaker sex," showing how women's biological, genetic, and physical makeup made her not only man's equal, but his superior. Also a humanist, Montagu points to the emotional and social qualities typically ascribed to and devalued in women as being key to just social life and relationships.
https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Superiority-Women-5th/dp/076198982X/?tag=2022091-20
1953
(The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first...)
The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now complete with the publication of this, the Third Edition.
https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Man-Study-Human-Dignity/dp/0925417416/?tag=2022091-20
1971
(Discusses a current trend toward a dehumanization of mank...)
Discusses a current trend toward a dehumanization of mankind through technological development and violence, examines the devitalization of society, personality, culture, and politics, and explains how to combat such evolution.
https://www.amazon.com/Dehumanization-Man-Ashley-Montagu/dp/007042845X/?tag=2022091-20
1981
(Man's Most Dangerous Myth presented a revolutionary theor...)
Man's Most Dangerous Myth presented a revolutionary theory for its time; breaking the link between genetics and culture, it argued that race is largely a social construction and not constitutive of significant biological differences between people.
https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Most-Dangerous-Myth-Fallacy/dp/0803946481/?tag=2022091-20
1997
anthropologist educator writer
Ashley Montagu was born as Israel Ehrenberg on June 28, 1905, in London, United Kingdom. He was a son of Charles Ehrenberg and Mary Plot Ehrenberg.
Ashley Montagu developed an interest in anatomy very early. He got acquainted with Scottish anatomist and anthropologist Arthur Keith who helped him to learn more about anatomy.
Ashley Montagu studied at Central Foundation Boys' School. He attended the University College London from 1922 to 1925 and received a diploma in psychology. He took anthropology courses with Grafton Elliot Smith and Charles Gabriel Seligman and studied at the London School of Economics. He also attended the University of Florence, where he took classes in ethnography and anthropology. In 1931, Montagu emigrated to the United States where he studied at Columbia University and in 1937 he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in anthropology under Professors Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict.
Ashley Montagu started his career as an assistant professor of anthropology at New York University in 1931. He held this post until 1938 and then became an associate professor of anatomy at Hahnemann University Hospital. In 1949 he was asked to serve on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) task force and became the principal author of that committee's "Statement on Race." The same year, he took up a post of a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University where he worked until 1955.
He also was a visiting guest lecturer at such universities as the University of California Santa Barbara, and Harvard. He also was a lecturer at Princeton University from 1978 to 1983. Montagu worked as a director of the Committee Physical Development and Health from 1953 to 1957.
Ashley Montagu published his first book Coming Into Being Among the Australian Aborigines, in 1938. His next book was published in 1942. Montagu is the author of The Natural Superiority of Women, Man's evolution: An introduction to physical anthropology, The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity and The Dehumanization of Man. He authored over 60 books devoted to human evolution, culture, and childcare.
(Man's Most Dangerous Myth presented a revolutionary theor...)
1997(Discusses a current trend toward a dehumanization of mank...)
1981(This volume brings together all the evidence bearing upon...)
1938(Making revolutionary arguments upon its first publication...)
1953(The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first...)
1971Ashley Montagu was an early "feminist" and an early critic of the concept of "race" and creationism. He was one of the first to argue forcefully that the human species could not, scientifically, be divided into "races" He also actively opposed genital modification and mutilation of children.
Quotations:
"The idea is to die young as late as possible".
"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become".
"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality".
"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone".
"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason".
Ashley Montagu was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine, International Society for the Study of Race Relations, International Association of Human Biologists, president of Philadelphia Anthropological Society, American Association of Anatomists, American Society for the Study of Child Growth and Development, American Association of Maternal and Child Health, American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Ashley Montagu married Helen Marjorie Peakes in 1931. The marriage produced three children.