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Scandals and scoundrels : seven cases that shook the academy / Ron Robin.

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Penn Museum Library PN167 .R63 2004
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Robin, Ron Theodore.
Contributor:
Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
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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