Content tagged with “anthropology”
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Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negroid
“These three terms are disputed, and many consider them obsolete, and even offensive. They refer to what some people considered the three ‘base races’ in the world: In simple, cultural terms: Caucasian: White people Mongoloid: Asian people Negroid: Black people One of the original theories of race…”
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
“I feel guilty saying that I ‘read’ this book, because I abandoned it after about 100 pages. I just didn’t understand why the author was getting at. The first chapter was a long discussion of his experience with the culture of New Guineans. They are suitably bizarre, and he goes deep into how the…”
