Word: montagu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Samuel Montagu...
...discipline which profited from cross-cultural scope, and therefore more cosmopolitan perspectives. The American Anthropological Association has issued a statement describing homosexual and bisexual variations as common across many cultures, and well within human adaptations which are quite normal. Distinguished anthropologists who have persuasively articulated this position include Ashley Montagu and Margaret Mead, who has stated that she considers fear and condemnation of sexual variation to be a destructive malad-justment...
...treatment derived more than a half-century ago from the Orient and the Ottoman Empire. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople, was so impressed by the Turks' resistance to the small pox that she had her own children inoculated by the Turkish method and recommended the procedure to the royal family. King George I tried it first on six captives at Newgate Prison, then on eleven charity children. Since they survived, he had his granddaughters inoculated...
...home minding the kids and gathering vegetables...and a particular emphasis on warfare and the salutary advantages of genocide. But these arguments have arisen before and have been strongly rebutted both on the basis of historical and anthropological studies. (See for instance A. Alland, The Human Imperative or M.F.A. Montagu, Man and Agression...
This statement attempts to tie Wilson's argument to that of Robert Ardrey, who is extensively and appropriately criticized in the two cited works. (Montagu is actually the editor, not the writer, of Man and Aggression.) In fact the only thing Wilson and Ardrey have in common is that both authors have commented on the evidence for human evolution published by biological and physical anthropologists, paleontologists and archeologists. Let's examine the critics' claims point by point...