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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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c2004.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnpmc |
Table of Contents:
- 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?