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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [qb] That absurd "Hamiticism" position is not even remotely tenable, even though Europeans desperately want it to be so. There is no evidence of it. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm trying to understand why you're so hostile to it, when Hamiticism argues for North African biological continuity since the Epipalaeolithic. I only thought it would be a problem for Afrocentrists if it argued there was a mass migration from the Levant much more recently. It doesn't. The so-called "Dynastic Race Theory" which proposes a migration from Levant into Egypt during the Neolithic/pre-Dynastic never argued for large-scale gene flow; the "dynastic race" as elites were thought to be a minuscule number of the total population: "Though gradual infiltration by an alien people might well profoundly modify the culture of Egypt, it could hardly produce that terrific wave of national energy which followed close on the advent of the Dynastic Race. Such a result might however well follow the invasion and conquest by a race superior in fighting strength, though perhaps [b]far inferior numerically to the old Egyptian stock[/b]." "It is also very suggestive of the presence of a dominant race, perhaps relatively [b]few in numbers[/b] but greatly exceeding the original inhabitants in intelligence; a race which brought into Egypt the knowledge of building in stone, of sculpture, painting, reliefs, and above all writing; hence the enormous jump from the primitive Predynastic Egyptian to the advanced civilization of the Old Empire." - Derry DE. 1956. The dynastic race in Egypt. J Egypt Archaeol 42:80–85 [/qb][/QUOTE][QUOTE] Edmund Leach’s review of my book The Living Races of Man in your February 3 number is inaccurate and silly. He says, for example: “It is to Professor Coon’s discredit that he should seek to support his purportedly scientific classification with 128 photographs in which the Caucasians are posed in shirt-sleeves and ‘civilized’ hair-cuts whereas most of his other categories appear as bare-arsed savages.” The photographic supplement contains 183 photographs, not 128. None of the persons depicted have haircuts that could not be found on allegedly civilized individuals in London today. If we add conservative to civilized, we find only 15 unusual coiffures, nine of which are on Caucasoid heads and not one on a non-Caucasoid African. As for shirt-sleeves, the upper body is clothed in all but 35 pictures, and in most of these only the face, neck, and portions of the upper chest are showing. Bare female breasts appear in seven, mostly inhabitants of warm regions. Only four are bare-arsed: one Negrito baby whose mother is fully clothed; two pictures of Andamanese; and one of a Hottentot. [/QUOTE] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1966/03/17/prejudice/ [/QB][/QUOTE]
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