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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 306,753 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ashley Montagu is the 68th most popular anthropologist (down from 54th in 2019), the 3,367th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,269th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Anthropologist.

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  • 19

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  • 2.70

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Ashley Montagu ranks 68 out of 69. Before him are Raymond Firth, Arjun Appadurai, Georges Balandier, Max Gluckman, Gayle Rubin, and Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Robert Lowie, Fiona Graham, Eric Wolf, Julio Caro Baroja, Marcellin Boule, and Dmitry Anuchin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Ashley Montagu ranks 235. Before him are Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, Kunio Maekawa, Lev Schnirelmann, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, and Hadiya Davletshina. After him are Jean De Clercq, Mischa Auer, John Lyng, Albert W. Tucker, Floyd Gottfredson, and Franco Albini. Among people deceased in 1999, Ashley Montagu ranks 177. Before him are Kirk Alyn, Rory Calhoun, Guillermo Arellano, Charlie Byrd, Frank Lubin, and Heinrich Schmid. After him are Robert Kramer, Anahit Tsitsikian, Lester Bowie, Teuvo Aura, Yury Malyshev, and Alain Peyrefitte.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ashley Montagu ranks 3,367 out of 7,765. Before him are David Wilkie (1785), Joe Jordan (1951), W. W. Jacobs (1863), Richard Palmer-James (1947), Emily Mortimer (1971), and Alex Kingston (1963). After him are Joanne Whalley (1961), Edith Evans (1888), David Lloyd (1950), Nicholas Clay (1946), William Stukeley (1687), and William Friese-Greene (1855).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Ashley Montagu ranks 10. Before him are Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Victor Turner (1920), Mary Leakey (1913), and Edmund Leach (1910). After him are Hugh Falconer (1808) and Alice Roberts (1973).

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