Re: Anthropology and "Race-Mixing" (was Re: Adolf Hitler - Racist?)

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Thomas Kavanagh <tkavanag@indiana.edu> wrote:

>jmorris@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (John Morris) wrote:
>>Sorry for the crosspost folks, but I thought the opinion of an
>>anthropologist might be of use here.
>>
>>Did the Franz Boas or his "school" ever promote "race-mixing"?
>>

>No, because Boas and his "school", that is, most of cultural anthropology
>today have given up on the concept of race altogether. We do not know
>what a race is, where one begins, where it ends, in either time or space.

Many thanks to Dr. Kavanagh for this.

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 John Morris                               <jmorris@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>

 at University of Alberta     <Scripture veteris capiunt exempla futuri>

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