Caspian race

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The Caspian race was a supposed sub-race of the Caucasian race in the context of a now-outdated model of dividing humanity into different races which was developed originally by Europeans in support of colonialism. [1] The term was used by M. G. Abdushelishvili (1979) as constituting a branch of the Mediterranean race or Irano-Afghan race. [2] In Soviet-era anthropology, the term was used to include Tats and Azerbaijanis. [3]

The Caspian race was said to be prevalent among the Azerbaijanis, [4] [5] [6] Kumyks and Tsakhurs. [7] [8] Genrietta Leonidovna Khit said that as a form of racial admixture the Caspian subtype was represented among Turkmens and Talyshs. [2] [9]

Notes

  1. For the model of dividing humanity into races, see American Association of Physical Anthropologists (27 March 2019). "AAPA Statement on Race and Racism". American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Retrieved 19 June 2020. Instead, the Western concept of race must be understood as a classification system that emerged from, and in support of, European colonialism, oppression, and discrimination.
  2. 1 2 A. Stini, William (1979). Physiological and Morphological Adaptation and Evolution. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   9783110803105 . Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  3. Contributions to the physical anthropology of the Soviet Union by Viktor Valerianovich Bunak, [ year needed ][ clarification needed ] page 14
  4. N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (1960). Народы Кавказа (in Russian). Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House. p. 29. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
    Азербайджанцы. Несмотря на значительные различия отдельных этнографических групп азербайджанцев по форме головы, в остальных признаках они сравнительно мало различаются между собой. Повсеместно преобладает каспийский тип и только в северных районах может быть прослежена некоторая примесь элементов кавкасионского типа.
  5. T.F. Aristova (1990). Материальная культура курдов XIX-первой половины XX в: проблема традиционно-культурной общности (in Russian). Nauka. p. 13. ISBN   9785020164284 . Retrieved July 5, 2019.
    Закавказские курды антропологически обследовались известным советским ученым М. Г. Абдушелишвили [13] в Тбилиси, а также в Апаранском районе Армянской ССР и Лачинском районе Азербайджанской ССР. М. Г. Абдушелишвили относит курдов, равно как и азербайджанцев, к каспийскому типу,
  6. N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (1973). Расы и народы (in Russian). Nauka. p. 56. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
    Аналогичным образом белуджи, курды, таты-мусульмане сближаются антропологически с азербайджанцами (каспийский тип)
  7. L.M. Minz (2007). The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley. Olma Media Group. pp. 282, 288, 454, 493. ISBN   978-5-373-01053-5.
  8. W.P. Alekseev. (2009). Избранное: Происхождение народов Кавказа (in Russian). Наука. p. 229. ISBN   978-5-02-035547-7.
  9. Khitʹ, G. L. (Genrietta Leonidovna Khitʹ) (1983). Dermatoglyphics of the USSR Peoples (Dermatoglifika narodov SSSR) (in Russian). Наука. OCLC   654385877.

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