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Scandals and scoundrels : seven cases that shook the academy /

Ron Robin takes an intriguing look at the shifting nature of academic and public discourse in this incisive consideration of recent academic scandals--including charges of plagiarism against Stephen Ambrose, Derek Freeman's attempt to debunk Margaret Mead's research, Michael Bellesiles...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robin, Ron Theodore
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : scholarly scandals: why do they happen?
  • Plagiarism and the demise of gatekeepers
  • The noble lie : "arming America" and the right to bear arms
  • "A self of many possibilities" : Joseph Ellis, the protean historian
  • The ghost of Caliban : Derek Freeman and "the fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead"
  • Violent people and gentle savages : the Yanomami controversy
  • The willful suspension of disbelief : Rigoberta Menchú and the making of the Mayan holocaust
  • Science fiction : Sokal's hoax and the "linguist left"
  • What do the scandals mean?