ANTHROPOLOGIST

Ashley Montagu

1905 - 1999

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Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg; June 28, 1905 – November 26, 1999) was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO "statement on race". As a young man he changed his name from Ehrenberg to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashley Montagu has received more than 328,456 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Ashley Montagu is the 79th most popular anthropologist (down from 66th in 2019), the 4,103rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,359th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Anthropologist.

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  • 330k

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  • 46.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Ashley Montagu ranks 79 out of 93. Before him are Yves Coppens, Julio Caro Baroja, Dmitry Anuchin, Vladimir Bogoraz, Eric Wolf, and Marcellin Boule. After him are Carleton S. Coon, Françoise Héritier, Marilyn Strathern, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Hugh Falconer, and W. H. R. Rivers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Ashley Montagu ranks 301. Before him are Arthur Crudup, Mahmoud Mokhtar El Tetsh, Erich Borchmeyer, László Papp, Robert Newton, and John Peters Humphrey. After him are Ernst Stueckelberg, Kay Francis, Fernand Rigaux, Louis Armand, Mario de las Casas, and Lev Kassil. Among people deceased in 1999, Ashley Montagu ranks 231. Before him are Christopher Cockerell, István Nagy, Muhammetnazar Gapurow, Roderick Thorp, Dana Plato, and Lloyd La Beach. After him are János Parti, Hank Snow, Roberto Bussinello, Nicholas Metropolis, Umyar Mavlikhanov, and Faith Domergue.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ashley Montagu ranks 4,103 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Taylor (1932), Emily Blackwell (1826), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), Walter Winterbottom (1913), Robert Newton (1905), and George Larner (1875). After him are Duncan Jones (1971), David Pegg (1935), Stephen Graham (1973), Olivia Manning (1908), Nathalie Emmanuel (1989), and William John Burchell (1781).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Ashley Montagu ranks 11. Before him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), and Jack Goody (1919). After him are Marilyn Strathern (1941), Hugh Falconer (1808), W. H. R. Rivers (1864), Chris Stringer (1947), and Alice Roberts (1973).

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