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Scandals and scoundrels : seven cases that shook the academy / Ron Robin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robin, Ron Theodore.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plagiarism.
- Impostors and imposture.
- Learning and scholarship--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 277 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0520235789
- 0520242491
- OCLC:
- 53458937
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