Science Art: “Asian Types,” The New Students Reference Work (1914)


Click to embiggen

A dicey bit of racial taxonomy from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.

I’m not sure how I feel about my children seeing this, but it’s a part of the history of anthropology. Somebody definitely seemed to have it in for the Mangune.

Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.

Entered on 27 April 2008 at 6:28 in the Science Art file | Care to make an observation? | Print Print

No Observations yet »

RSS feed for observations on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave an observation

You must be logged in to make an observation.

The Guild of Scientific Troubadours Internet Hall is powered by WordPress & based (loosely) on the Pool theme design by Borja Fernandez.
Music saves lives.
RSS Feeds for recent updates and responses. Valid XHTML and CSS. ^Top^