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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kalonji: [QB] According to Montagu: [QUOTE][i]What "race" is everyone seems to know, and is only too eager to tell. All but a very few individuals [b]take it completely for granted that scientists have established the "facts" about "race" and that they have long ago recognized and classified the "races" of mankind[/b][/i] -Ashley Montagu, Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race[/QUOTE]According to Montagu race is: [QUOTE][i][a] process of genetic change within a definite ecological area; that "race" is a dynamic, not a static, condition; [b]and that it becomes static and classifiable only when a taxonomically minded anthropologist arbitrarily delimits the process of change at his own time level.[/b][/i] -Ashley Montagu, Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race[/QUOTE]That there are no races within the human race was starting to get accepted within the first half of the previous century. Piramigdet and his pseudo scientific kinfolk are relics on the verge of becoming extinct. [QUOTE][i]there is no theoretical, methodological, or political consensus shared across any of the subdisciplines on how to interpret and explicate the realities that constitute race.[/i] -Faye Harrison, editor of the American Anthropologist[/QUOTE] [QUOTE][i]The failures of physical anthropology are very real (Brace, 1981, 1982, 1988, 1993131, but, contra Renfrew, a better case can be made that they [b]have been the result of flaws in theoretical expectations[/b] rather than methodological inadequacies (Brace, 1989; Brace and Hunt, 1990). [b]It was an item of faith in the physical anthropology of yesteryear that the conformation of each individual human being was an approximation to an underlying “racial” essence that constituted true reality.[/b] In wondrously Platonic fashion (Plato, 19191, anthropological practitioners [b]assumed[/b] that each individual specimen was an imperfect shadow of that “real but directly unattainable thing,” the supposed underlying “racial” reality whose elucidation was the ultimate goal of their aspirations (attributed to Topinard by Ripley, 1899; Vallois, 1953)[/i] -Brace, Clines and Clusters Versus “Race:” A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile[/QUOTE] [QUOTE][i][b]If human beings really were approximations to one or another underlying “race,” this should have been demonstrated by factor analysis long ago.[/b] From a purely methodological viewpoint, [b]that this has not even come close to happening is a fine demonstration that there simply are no “races” out there waiting to be discovered.[/b] This does not mean, however, that multivariate approaches to the analysis of population relationships are futile. It simply means that we need to choose the kind of multivariate technique that is appropriate to answer the questions we really should be asking.[/i] -Brace, Clines and Clusters Versus “Race:” A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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