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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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Основен автор: Robin, Ron Theodore.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Berkeley : University of California Press, ℗♭2004.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=119353
Подобни документи: Print version:: Scandals and scoundrels.
Съдържание:
  • 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 Menchu and the making of the Mayan holocaust
  • Science fiction : Sokal's hoax and the "linguist left"
  • What do the scandals mean?