The Origins of Anthropological Genetics

Marks, Jonathan

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“…Several authors have argued that Hrdlička's concern about race and eugenics in the inaugural issue of the AJPA was partly a consequence of the political circumstances under which the AJPA was founded. Hrdlička had to keep the support of powerful individuals, regardless that they were racists and eugenicists (Caspari, ; Marks, ; Spiro, ). Barkan (, p. 99) took a more psychological interpretation of Hrdlička's behaviour: “Hrdlička displayed the ambivalence of an immigrant outsider, who tried to be accepted by the establishment, and in an effort to gain respectability adopted much of its bigotry, although for scientific as well as more personal reasons he was inclined to refute racism on scientific grounds rather than for ethnic reasons.” Nevertheless, before the inaugural issue was launched Hrdlička broke connections with the wealthy patrician, Madison Grant, who led the eugenics group, and he appointed Franz Boas, Alfred Kroeber, and Henry K Donaldson as Associate Editors.…”

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Exceeding Hrdlička's aims: 100 Years of genetics in anthropology

Szathmáry

2018

American J Phys Anthropol

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Exceeding Hrdlička's aims: 100 Years of genetics in anthropology

Szathmáry

2018

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…This biochemical race index underlined the racial hierarchy between the European type, having the highest proportion of Type A blood, and the Pacific-American type, having the greatest percentage of Type B (Marks 1994, 62). 9 Historians of blood-group research in the postwar period contend that racist arguments based on blood-group data disappeared in the field of blood-group genetics around the 1960s, although the race concept remained intact in terms of "population" (Mukharji 2014;Radin 2014;Marks 2012).…”

Section: Serological Anthropologies For Japanese Colonialismmentioning

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Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926–1975

Hyun

2019

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ArgumentAfter World War II, blood groups became a symbol of anti-racial science. This paper aims to shed new light on the post-WWII history of blood groups and race, illuminating the postcolonial revitalization of racial serology in South Korea. In the prewar period, Japanese serologists developed a serological anthropology of Koreans in tandem with Japanese colonialism. The pioneering Korean hematologist Yi Samyŏl , inspired by decolonization movements during the 1960s, excavated and appropriated colonial serological anthropology to prove Koreans as biologically independent from the Japanese. However, his racial serology of Koreans shared colonial racism with Japanese anthropology, despite his anti-colonial nationalism.

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“…Smocovitis (2012) argues that from the 1920s the proponents of Neo-Darwinism had been striving to integrate anthropology into their own perspectives, or make anthropology more aware of genetics. Marks (2012), by contrast, suggests that the idea that anthropology had ignored genetics until the 1950s and 60s was simply a myth. During the same period that Franz Boas was founding an anti-racist anthropology in the United States, most other researchers, Marks (2012) suggests, were championing a racist anthropology based on heredity.…”

Section: A Brief History Of International Biological Anthropologymentioning

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“…Marks (2012), by contrast, suggests that the idea that anthropology had ignored genetics until the 1950s and 60s was simply a myth. During the same period that Franz Boas was founding an anti-racist anthropology in the United States, most other researchers, Marks (2012) suggests, were championing a racist anthropology based on heredity. He also points out that physical anthropologists had already been involved with serological studies as a means to interpreting 'racial differences' in the first decades of the twentieth century.…”

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Contributions to a historical review of biological anthropology in Brazil from the second half of the twentieth century

Neto

2017

Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Ciênc. hum.

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This article provides a preliminary historical survey of Brazilian biological anthropology from the second half of the twentieth century. Even today, little historiographic information on the last 50 or 60 years is available and/or has been explored, while few allusions to bioanthropology can be found in existing works on the history and contemporary state of anthropology in Brazil; this article attempts to span this gap. The first section examines various aspects of the general development of biological anthropology as it radiated from the centers (Europe and the United States) outward over time. This initial survey affords a clearer understanding of the Brazilian case, which is the topic of the second section. This is followed by a brief historical and bibliographic account of the most recent state of biological anthropology in the country, including a number of specialized areas of research. The article concludes with a short discussion of the material covered.Keywords: History of anthropology. Biological anthropology. Brazilian anthropology.Resumo: O artigo oferece uma contribuição inicial para uma revisão da história da antropologia biológica brasileira a partir da segunda metade do século XX. No que se refere aos últimos 50 ou 60 anos, são poucas, ainda, as informações historiográficas disponíveis e/ou trabalhadas, assim como são módicas as alusões à Bioantropologia dentro do conjunto de trabalhos dedicados a uma reflexão sobre a história e a situação hodierna do campo antropológico nacional. Posto isso, o artigo se encontra estruturado da seguinte forma: Em um primeiro momento, são abordados os aspectos mais gerais concernentes ao desenvolvimento geral da antropologia biológica a partir dos centros irradiadores (Europa e Estados Unidos) ao longo do tempo, aspectos necessários, em parte, para um melhor entendimento do caso brasileiro, assunto da segunda seção. A seguir, um pequeno apanhado histórico-bibliográfico relativo ao estado mais recente da área no país, em algumas especialidades, é apresentado. O artigo finda com uma pequena reflexão acerca do material exposto ao longo das suas páginas constituintes.Palavras-chave: História da antropologia. Antropologia biológica. Antropologia brasileira.GASPAR NETO, Verlan Valle. Contributions to a historical review of biological in Brazil from the second half of the 20 th century. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 12, n. 2, p. 517-533, maio-ago. 2017.

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The Origins of Anthropological Genetics

Cited by 36 publications

References 81 publications

Exceeding Hrdlička's aims: 100 Years of genetics in anthropology

Exceeding Hrdlička's aims: 100 Years of genetics in anthropology

Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926–1975

Contributions to a historical review of biological anthropology in Brazil from the second half of the twentieth century

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