Race and the Issue of National Indentity in Israel

Bibliographic Data

ID8965733
AuthorsRoselle Tekiner (Eckerd College, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume23
Issue1
Pages39-55
Publication date1991-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743800034541
OpenAlexW2143688661
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited23

For more than century, race was a major interest in anthropology. Buildingon Johan Blumenbach's 1795 color classificaiton dividing humanity into white, black, brown, yellow and red, anthropologists further subdivided the people of the world into finer taxonomic categories. Hair form, shape of the nose, pigmentation of the eyes and the hair, stature, and the shaps of the head were among the many characteristics race classifiers added to skin color to enable them to fit populations into the typologies they designed. By the end of the 19th century, numerous races and subraces had been described, laying the groundwork for the direction the discipline would follow until the mid-20th century. It was expected that the development and refinement of a racial typology would lead to a framework for tracing lines of human evolution and routes of human migration

Archaeology · Biology · Ethnic group · Genealogy · Humanity · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Typology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society

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