Luctor
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Post by Luctor on Dec 1, 2003 16:22:30 GMT -5
As an painter(amateur),i was always interested in human faces,and looks in general... I have noticed from my early years,that people from some regions looks similar to eachoter... After reading a book 'Characterology of Yugoslavs' from Vladimir Dvornikovic,i was introduced for the first time in racial anthropology. 'Characterology of Yugoslavs' is probably the best anthropological book written about peoples in former Yugoslavia.Its emphasis in mainly on Serbs(Montenegrins in particular). Dvornikovic and Cvijic(Serbian geographer) were founders of 'Dinarcism'. I disagree with their racial simplifications,their racial thories seems to be obsolete.But still Dvornikovic's work is great. His thories where created in 1930-es,when people where obsessed about racial ideals... Anyway.... As an artist,i am interested in racial anthropology in purely esthetic sense,and also in historic... I dont believe that phenotype(look)determine personality.... Customes,religion,historic circumstances,social position,however does... I would like to hear from other members,how do they become interested in racial anthropology,and why? Cheers...  |
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Post by Melnorme on Dec 1, 2003 16:28:28 GMT -5
How? Hehe.
Because I began to wonder why so many Russian Jews have blue eyes. Why North African Jews are dark, except for a few of them that have reddish hair and look 'Irish'. Why Ethiopian Jews have narrow noses but many of the Aframs I see on TV don't.
When you're surrounded with physical diversity, it's hard not to wonder 'Why?'
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Luctor
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Post by Luctor on Dec 1, 2003 17:46:13 GMT -5
Yes,i agree... Anthropology is indeed very interesting... |
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Post by AWAR on Dec 1, 2003 19:04:17 GMT -5
Hey Luctor, I'm a graphic designer, that's the same reason I got interested in anthropology.
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Luctor
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Post by Luctor on Dec 1, 2003 19:21:09 GMT -5
Wow,thats great AWAR! I am mostly oil painter(my second occupation)but i am interested in architecture and furniture design as well |
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Post by Dienekes on Dec 1, 2003 19:52:15 GMT -5
I got interested in physical anthropology while debunking pseudo-historical tales about Greece. Later I became more interested in the esthetic aspect of race and the origins of modern ethnic groups.
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skord
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Post by skord on Dec 2, 2003 23:37:35 GMT -5
I've always wondered why my nose is pointy and my sister's is snubbed hehe
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Post by Gus Morea on Dec 3, 2003 6:05:02 GMT -5
Physical Anthropology is just something I've always had on the "back burner" for as long as I can remember. I don't really know why I like it.
By the time I was seven or so, I had already observed many things that I hear people talking about on boards like this. Mongoloid ancestry in some E. Euros, similarities between some Brits and Leventines, and the "Med. Myth" were my main ones. People thought I was freakin' crazy.
It never really occured to me that there was a field dealing with this kind of stuff until a few years ago when I stumbled upon the Racial Myths board. (I just got my first computer...stumbled upon sites saying Greeks were mixed-race...google search....) Then it was down to the library to fetch a copy of Coon. I never finished it, but it was very interesting. When I get some things straightened out in my life and have more time, I will definitely be getting more into PA. Right know I'm stuck having to lurk and glean, lurk and glean....
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ppp
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Post by ppp on Dec 8, 2003 20:17:56 GMT -5
I've always been interested in how things really are. Racial anthropology is just one of my interests among many others (such as cultural anthropology, mythology, religion, philosophy, political science, history, art, linguistics, psychology, biology, genetics, physiology, etc.). Being that my interests are spread on such a wide spectrum I really have only basic knowledge on most of the fields I am interested in, but that is one reason to check out places like this: to learn more.
Oh, and BTW I myself am an art teacher (and I work as a freelance illustrator and comic artist too).
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Post by AWAR on Dec 8, 2003 22:17:00 GMT -5
Oh, and BTW I myself am an art teacher (and I work as a freelance illustrator and comic artist too). Yo! Colleague! Greetings. Do you have any of your work on the internet, for all of us to enjoy? |
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Post by ppp on Dec 8, 2003 22:25:13 GMT -5
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Post by rusalka on Dec 8, 2003 22:56:15 GMT -5
I've always been fascinated about how people can look so different from each other and by the diversity of human race (species, whatever). Even as a kid, I would browse through different country entries in encylopedias and would try to draw those people accurately enough (although I'm sorry to say that I mostly fail miserably when drawing a decent African anatomy). It's amazing how you can actually start guessing people's ethnic origins too, that was the case with me after I started reading about physical anthropology from books, and discussing it with people I met online. Recently I impressed a friend of mine who is a PhD candidate in Boston University in anthropology, showing her one of my posts (life's little joys). Studying art, myself (previously fine arts and illustration and now Graphic Design with an art history concentration to back it up) I'm also interested about just how people "look" and how this relates to aesthetics. I'm exploring the reasons why some faces look beautiful to me, and why some don't. Obviously, people have very different taste when it comes to "looks". I'm interested not only in pyhsical differences in people, but of history and culture of different ethnic and cultural groups as well. Being of more than one cultural background, if not an ethnic one; I'm interested in comparing and contrasting others. |
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Post by urbanra5cal on Mar 10, 2004 14:21:28 GMT -5
My immediate family is a mix of Iberian (Andalucian and Galician), Malayo-Polynesian, and Anglo-Saxon. None of us siblings looks very much alike...we share a few similar features (such as full lips), but we each have different skull shapes, skin color, hair texture (but same color), eye shape (some of us have almond shaped eyes, one has the extreme mongol internal eye-fold...etc.) We also have different body types - muscular and short, average height/average weight (with a past of obesity), very tall and very thin. None of us has the same nose either. We have different blood types, and half of us is lactose intolerant, while the other half is "dairy-addicted". It may seem to an outsider that we are children of either our father with several women of different races/racial variations, or children of our mother with different fathers.
It has always intrigued me why and how these physical features manifest (and what they imply.
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Post by Springa on Mar 10, 2004 18:26:39 GMT -5
I've always been interested in languages and history, and racial anthropology came as a consequence. Also, hailing from a portuguese family, I've always heard stories about Portugal, the moors, Celtic influence in the north, and found it very interesting.
And of course, I believe that racial anthropology is a very valuable tool against racism and the mythology that totalitarians invent to manipulate people. The more I learn about it, the more I see the bullshit behind nordicism, afrocentrism and other race-centered ideologies and how they feel that it's ok to lie, as long as you're doing it for (what they consider to be) a "good" reason. Lies are lies, bullshit is bullshit, and that's the importance of racial anthropology, to expose the crap.
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