Arabid race
The Arabid race was a historical term used by ethnologists during the late 19th century and the early 20th century in an attempt to categorize a historically perceived racial division between peoples of Semitic ethnicities and peoples of other ethnicities. Its proponents saw it as part of the so called Caucasian race or even of a subspecies labelled Homo sapiens europaeus.[1] It has been considered significantly outdated in the years since.[2] Modern scientific consensus based on genetics rejects the concept of distinct human races in a biological sense.[3]
In the early 20th century, Charles Gabriel Seligman described his perception of the occurrence of the "Arabid race" in the Sudan region:
In the Sudan area, classic Arabid types can be found among the Kababish and certain other Arabic-speaking desert tribes collectively known as Sudanese Arabs. Here, they often occur in solution with the local Hamitic Mediterranean type, which was the morphological taxon to which belonged the A-Group, C-Group and Meroitic culture makers, among certain other early populations in the region. Elsewhere, Arabid elements fuse with the Negroid type of the region's indigenous Nilo-Saharan speakers, the Nilotes, thereby producing an Afro-Arab hybrid type.[4]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Birx, H. James (10 June 2010). "Biological Anthropology". 21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook. SAGE Publications. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-4522-6630-5. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ John R. Baker (1974). Race. New York and London: Oxford University Press. p. 625. ISBN 978-0-936396-04-0.
- ^ American Association of Physical Anthropologists (27 March 2019). "AAPA Statement on Race and Racism". American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ^ Seligmann, C. G. (July 1913). "Some Aspects of the Hamitic Problem in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 43: 593–705. doi:10.2307/2843546. JSTOR 2843546.