Man: His First Million Years

by Ashley Montagu

A brief introduction to anthropology. What are the distinctive characteristics of races and cultures? Why do patterns of sex and marriage vary? How did language, religion, and the arts develop? Ashley Montagu, the noted scholar and author, gives a frank and enlightening picture of man's evolution-from his earliest pre-primate form to his present stage of development. Here is a lucid and balanced introduction to the science of anthropology, cultural and physical, which shows where man came from and the direction in which he is heading.

Genres: Anthropology

192 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 1961

About the author

Books, such as The Natural Superiority of Women (1953), of Ashley Montagu, originally Israel Ehrenberg, a British-American, helped to popularize anthropology.

As a young man, he changed his name to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". After relocating to the United States, he used the name "Ashley Montagu."

This humanist of Jewish ancestry related topics, such as race and gender, to politics and development. He served as the rapporteur or appointed investigator in 1950 for the The Race Question , statement of educational, scientific, and cultural organization of United Nations.

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Reviews

[Michael David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ashley Montagu prefigured this segment of Bojack Horseman when he spoke of civilization as 'not the justness of a society's weights and measures which is the proper mark of its civilization, but its kindness. The overt expression of the inner civilization of a person is kindness; the same is true of the community. (p. 108)'

Yeah, all you are really is just the things you do.

Anyway, this is a good survey of anthropology.