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Surveying the Race Concept: A Reply to Lieberman, Kirk, and Littlefield
Author(s) -
Cartmill Matt,
Brown Kaye
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.2003.105.1.114
Subject(s) - race (biology) , sociology , anthropology , biological anthropology , variation (astronomy) , sampling (signal processing) , demography , gender studies , physics , astrophysics , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision
Leonard Lieberman, Rod Kirk, and Alice Littlefield report a significant decrease over the past 20 years in the percentage of physical anthropologists who support the race concept, while Matt Cartmill concludes that use of this concept did not decline during that period among anthropologists who study modern human variation. Neither study contradicts the other, since the two used different definitions and sampled different populations. More extensive sampling of the literature and more reliable survey techniques are needed to resolve the issue, [Keywords: race, history of ideas, biological anthropology]