Category: Anthropology

  • Use of Blood Groups in Human Classification Science Magazine Volume 112, Number 2903 (1950-08-18) pages 187-196 DOI: 10.1126/science.112.2903.187 William C. Boyd Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts —Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him! Plato, The Republic In recent…

  • A Critical Discussion of the “Mulatto Hypothesis” The Journal of Negro Education Volume 3, Number 3, The Physical and Mental Abilities of the American Negro (July, 1934) pages 389-402 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) The Two “Mulatto Hypotheses” What is the “mulatto hypothesis?” The phrase may be used to indicate a point of view concerning the…

  • Race mixture: a social or a biological problem? The Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 2 (July 1949) pages 81-85 A. Dickinson The ideas of the layman on race are curiously distorted. Race is commonly identified with a given language or culture, with a group living in a common habitat or possessing a single characteristic feature…

  • Call for Papers: Association for Feminist Anthropology Sessions American Anthropological Association 2012-02-07 Posted by Josyln O. The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA’s programming for the 111th AAA Annual Meeting, to be held November 14-18, 2012 in San Francisco. The AAA meeting theme this year is “Borders,” so…

  • Studies in Race Crossing: IV. Crosses of Chinese, Amerindians and Negroes, and their Bearing on Racial Relationships Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie Volume 47, Number 3 (March 1956) pages 233-315 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University With 36 figures on plates 24—32 and 7 figures and 41 tables in the text This paper…

  • The South African-born Chinese community is a tiny one, consisting of 10,000 to 12,000 members in a population of approximately 45 million. Throughout much of the history of this most race-conscious country, the community has been ignored or neglected, and officially classed along with Coloureds (people of mixed race) or with Indians in that particularly…

  • Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed Appalachian Journal Volume 11, Number 3 (Spring 1984) pages 201-213 David Henige University of Wisconsin, Madison Beginnings have an irritating but essential fragility and one that should be taken to heart by all who occupy themselves with history. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin There are…

  • The Birth of Physical Anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal Current Anthropology Volume 53, Number S5, April 2012 13 pages Gonçalo Santos, Senior Research Fellow Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung In this article I analyze the emergence of the field of physical anthropology in the metropolitan academic sphere of the Portuguese Empire during the late nineteenth century.…

  • Making Güeras: Selling white identities on late-night Mexican television Gender, Place and Culture Volume 12, Number 1 (March 2005) pages 71–93 DOI: 10.1080/09663690500082984 Jamie Winders, Associate Professor of Geography Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York John Paul Jones III, Professor of Geography and Development University of Arizona, Tucson Michael James Higgins (1946-2011), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology…

  • The 2000 U.S. Census was the first in modern times allowing respondents to check off more than one box for the mandatory race question. In 2010, the number of people checking more than one box grew enormously.