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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] Where did Fletchers terms cynotrichous (dog hair) and heliotrichous (sun hair) come from? What happened to ulotrichous (wooly hair), cymotrichous (wavy hair), and leiotrichous (straight hair)? Are any of the major continental human varieties (Afrikan, European, Asian) limited to having just one hair type? Haddon 1925 characterised two opposing hair types: ULOTRICHY _ long to short close interlocking spirals (coils ___________ curved follicle ___________ compressed lumen ___________ narrow oval cross section LEIOTRICHY_ long lank stiff coarse and flopping straight down ___________ straight follicle ___________ round lumen ___________ pseudo circular cross section This was based on Bory de St Vincent 1827 but with a precision and expansion. Haddon placed the range of hair types ranging between wooly and straight extremes into another category: CYMOTRICHY frizzly _ - very short deep wave having no curve or spiral ___________ curly __ - complete circle or large spiral ___________ wavy __ - low to deep waves ___________ smooth_ - thin soft slightly curved tending to wave ___________ curved to straight follicle ___________ compressed to round lumen ___________ oval to pseudo circular cross section The terms invented by Fletcher(?) are loaded with preconceptions and take terrible liberties with their invented Greek etymologies. Outside of racial joking, just what is dog hair? Is it determined by its smell when wet? Is it like the fur of a poodle, an Afghan hound, a spaniel, a wire hair terrier, or a chihuahua? And sun hair brings to mind images of a color, the tendency of strong sunlight to bleach hair to reddish and yellowish tints. Dr. Fletcher's coinages detract from the standard anthropological and forensic terminology for a fanciful biased determination of hair type related to stereotypical ideas of the misnomered classifications Caucasian and Negro. As such it should be avoided. We should not begin classifying those Ethiopians with straight hair as Caucasians or those Scotch-Irish or Ashkenazim with wooly hair as Negro (I only use that word for purposes of illustration). I recall an Ashkenazi with a Jewfro joking with me that there are two kinds of hair. There's either hair that grows up or hair that grows down. This would rob both Fletcher and Bory de St Vincent of their opinions of frizzly and curly hair being Caucasian and wavy hair not being Negro. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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