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Montagu, Ashley

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Montagu, (Montague Francis) Ashley (1905–1999)

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US writer Norman Mailer, US poet Allen Ginsberg, and US anthropologist Ashley Montagu, appearing on a US television show in about 1970.

British-born US anthropologist. As a critic of theories of racial determinism, he was a forceful defender of human rights and wrote such important works as Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race 1942. In 1950 he helped draft the definitive UNESCO ‘Statement on Race’.



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