Category: Anthropology

Culture and the Death of God

Well instead of talking about which of the many conspiracies is at work (today this Sunday) to destroy organised Voodoo, why not enjoy the slightly more intelligent and thoughtful reflections of Terry Eagleton on culture and the death of God this fine Sunday as an alternative?

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Posted by Graham Lister on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 08:30 AM in Anthropology,  Christianity,  European culture
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Christianity As Expression of Authentic European Culture

GW has expressed the constraint:

“It is a pity that Christianity, as flawed as it is from a European racial perspective, is undeniably part of the unity of north and south.  We are stuck with it, for it has been too close for too long to us - and the faithful must have their faith expressions, after all.”

DanielS has expressed the constraint:

“Adding yet another knot in the tangle is the argument that with the Christian texts already being the terms in which many of our people think, the currency for two thousand years now, there must be some ontological basis beneath, and we may as well find the positive logic to it for our purposes. However, with the texts being what they are, the motivations of the texts being as convoluted, Jewish and ambiguous as they were to begin, all that winds-up happening with the deciphering of our “true” logic behind Christianity is a contribution to the mess.”

An approach offered by John Harland is to admit the historicity of Jesus in His essential mythic image as descendant of God evidenced in his own over-ruling of texts with direct bodily connection with God as Father, but to deny the historicity of the extant texts—deny them as yet another means by which dastards attempt to interpose themselves between the God-heritage of individuals and their Father, in spirit and flesh.

Ridicule of Harland’s own editing of the texts to suit his view may be conducted only at the sacrifice of the two constraints establishing the context of this presentation. Offer a superior approach if you don’t like Harland’s—either that or declare folly the entire effort to connect with the spiritual force of Christianity.

Click this link for a pdf document containing part of Harland’s account starting with “The Germans” (in the anthropological sense meaning what many identify as Celtic and Nordic pagans of the pre-Christian era), “The Catholic Church Promotes Judeo-Christianity”, “The First Breaking Apart of the Church Serpent” (regarding Henry VIII and Martin Luther), “A Further Break From the Serpent” (regarding the establishment of America), “The Strange Phenomenon of ‘Money-Mad’ Americans” (regarding the closing of the frontier and replacement of Nature and Nature’s God with money-based “culture”), “The American Dream” (the commodification, by conspirators, of the American spiritual renaissance), “The German Reich” (the parallel processes occurring in what became the nation state known as “Germany” during the 1800s leading up to WW I), “The World Picture After WW I” (the situation leading up to WW II) and the concluding section of this pdf document is “The Second World War”.

The entire book is “Word Controlled Humans” by John Harland, ISBN 0-914752-12-X available from Sovereign Press, 326 Harris Road, Rochester, WA 98579 (with which I have no business or personal relationship).

Posted by James Bowery on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 08:37 PM in Anthropology,  Archeology,  Books,  Christianity,  Conservatism,  European culture,  History,  National Socialism,  Political Philosophy,  Psychology,  Revisionism,  Social Sciences,  The Ontology Project,  U.S. Politics
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Intelligence vs. control of the money supply

A recent proposal has argued that nationalists should try to seek reproduction with higher IQ whites so that:

“They will naturally rise to the highest levels of society and victory will be inevitable. This is how the white race will be saved.”

The prospects can be empirically evaluated. Richard Lynn has extensively summarized IQ studies on Jews. Most studies are non-representative. A representative American study reported a Jewish (Ashkenazi) verbal IQ of 107.5. Two representative British studies have reported Jewish (Ashkenazi) IQs as 108.5 and 107.7 (verbal = 107.3, non-verbal = 108.0). The best reading of American and British Ashkenazi IQ is 110. The average white IQ in these regions is 100.

In the U.S., there are about 200 million whites and 6.5 million Jews. Assuming a standard deviation of 15 in both populations, we get the following.

As anyone can see, Jews haven’t achieved their spectacular success (e.g., control of the mainstream media, ZOG, etc.) as a result of IQ; they achieved it by acquiring control of the money supply. Nationalists are advised to target getting back control of the money supply instead of trying to increase IQ. I’m not against increasing IQ, but IQ just isn’t relevant to the matter.

Posted by R-news on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 09:44 PM in Anthropology,  European Nationalism,  Global Elitism,  IQ and Heredity,  Jewish Diaspora,  That Question Again,  White Nationalism
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Do the Taino still exist?

Following dozens of comments from outraged commenters self-identifying as such, Nature changed its answer to this question.

Originally, this news article was titled ‘Breathing Life into an Extinct Ethnicity’ and stated:

“The Taínos were the first Native Americans to meet European explorers in the Caribbean. They soon fell victim to the diseases and violence brought by the outsiders, and today no Taínos remain.”

Three days later, the title was changed to ‘Rebuilding the genome of a hidden ethnicity’ and the offending paragraph was replaced with:

“The Taínos were the first Native Americans to meet European explorers in the Caribbean — and they soon fell victim to the diseases and violence brought by the outsiders. Today, the genomes of most if not all descendents of Taínos now contain few of the unique markers that characterized their ancestors. “

and a correction was added:

“This article originally stated that the Taíno were extinct, which is incorrect. Nature apologizes for the offence caused, and has corrected the text to better explain the research project described.”

The article is worth reading (some of the comments, too).  Here are some excerpts:

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Posted by Dasein on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 06:26 AM in Anthropology
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The Attack On Civilisation From Within

by David Hamilton

Science is supposed be objective and free of the scientist’s values, but Franz Boaz turned Anthropology into an ideology: an ideology is a set of ideas that incorporate value judgements. In the Soviet Union everything was presented as they wished it was and not a reflection of reality. All policies were introduced ostensibly for the workers but the elites were rich and lived in exclusive areas like our elites; it explained everything in economic or material terms and other aspects of life are left out.

Ideology is reasoning from the orthodox belief rather than from empirical evidence and the subjects are slotted into it. There are two sides good and bad people like the war with The Devil in Christianity.

Boas changed the object of the racial bias in anthropology from tribes onto Europeans. He taught that theories should be treated as works in progress, until proven beyond doubt. His grounding in the natural sciences made him aware that the difference in the study of humans from geography or zoology was the study of “culture.” He did not see culture as linear progression, until it reached the level European civilisation and rejected the attendant notion that those who were behind were inferior.

Boas was the first scientist to state that the White and the Negro were fundamentally equal and he actively supported African American organizations. (1) As an anthropologist he sought to use science, including his studies of tribal peoples, to seek out and document the truth about the significance of race. It was his hope that people could learn to be tolerant of difference, and to see so-called primitives not as inferior or less developed, but as a source of diversity that had much to offer.

Researchers had noted differences in height, cranial measurements, and other physical features between Americans and people from different parts of Europe and to many this showed innate biological difference between races. Boas’s primary interest was the study of processes of change; he set out to determine whether bodily forms are also subject to processes of change. This was in his mind when he studied 17,821 people, divided into seven ethno-national groups. The problem with that is diet: the cranials of Japanese immigrants grew bigger because of nutrition. People grow bigger now and there are fewer bandy-legged people because of less rickets.

His 1912, study on the plastic nature of the human body in response to changes in the environment has for the past 90 years been taken as evidence of cranial plasticity but never seriously examined for statistical and biological validity. By using pedigree information in Boas’ data, narrow sense heritabilities are estimated by the method of maximum likelihood. In addition, a series of tests and regression analyses are performed to determine the statistical validity of Boas’ original findings on differentiation between American and European-born children and the prolonged effect of the environment on cranial form. Results show the relatively high genetic component of the head and face diameters despite the environmental differences during development.

In 2002, anthropologists Corey S. Sparks and Richard L. Jantz, claimed that differences between children born to the same parents in Europe and America were insignificant, and that there was no detectable effect of exposure to the American environment on the cranial index in children. Their results contradicted Boas’s findings and showed they could not be used to support arguments of plasticity in cranial morphology.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 09:12 PM in Anthropology
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The Proles and Animals are Free

In all questions of morals they were allowed to follow their ancestral code. The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them. Promiscuity went unpunished, divorce was permitted. For that matter, even religious worship would have been permitted if the proles had shown any sign of needing or wanting it. They were beneath suspicion. As the Party slogan put it: ‘Proles and animals are free.’

Too few in number and too primitive to either exploit as ‘cheap labor’ or to ‘open up new markets’ in, with a great cynical fanfare and trumpeting, now and again the advocates of the Multi-Cult will declare that some peoples are indeed worthy of preservation…while the bulk of the peoples of the world who can be exploited thusly, and apparently being seen as something like the party members of 1984, are supposed to happily embrace their own destruction and enslavement.

In our overcrowded world their very future hangs in the balance. Almost all of these tribes are threatened by powerful outsiders who want their land. These outsiders - loggers, miners, cattle ranchers - are often willing to kill the tribespeople to get what they want…

...‘The jungle is fundamental to their lives and survival. It’s their home, their source of food, the source of their culture etc. Without it, they could not exist as a people.’

Painted: In a thick rainforest along the Brazilian-Peruvian border, these tribespeople
are thought never to have had any contact with the outside world

Incredible pictures of one of Earth’s last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows

By MICHAEL HANLON
Last updated at 4:43 PM on 30th May 2008

Skin painted bright red, heads partially shaved, arrows drawn back in the longbows and aimed square at the aircraft buzzing overhead. The gesture is unmistakable: Stay Away.

Behind the two men stands another figure, possibly a woman, her stance also seemingly defiant. Her skin painted dark, nearly black.

The apparent aggression shown by these people is quite understandable. For they are members of one of Earth’s last uncontacted tribes, who live in the Envira region in the thick rainforest along the Brazilian-Peruvian frontier.

Thought never to have had any contact with the outside world, everything about these people is, and hopefully will remain, a mystery.

Their extraordinary body paint, precisely what they eat (the anthropologists saw evidence of gardens from the air), how they construct their tent-like camp, their language, how their society operates - the life of these Amerindians remains a mystery.

‘We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,’ said Brazilian uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior. ‘This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence.’

Meirelles, who despite once being shot in the shoulder by an arrow fired by another tribe campaigns to protect these peoples, believes this group’s numbers are increasing, and pointed out how strong and healthy the people seemed.

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Posted by Alex on Friday, April 2, 2010 at 03:39 PM in Anthropology
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Race in humans: A reply to the “Statement on Race” by the American Anthropological Association (AAA)

This is a discussion section for the race FAQ at the wiki, which presently doesn't discuss all the things that it should, but it will be periodically updated. Suggestions for improvement and criticism will be appreciated. If you offer criticism, stick to scientific issues, and you better have the requistive scientific background.

Posted by J Richards on Friday, June 15, 2007 at 01:57 PM in Anthropology,  Genetics & Human Bio-Diversity,  Race realism
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Population of Shangdong, China in 500 B.C. closer to European than Asian

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/9/1396

Genetic Structure of a 2,500-Year-Old Human Population in China and Its Spatiotemporal Changes

Li Wang*{dagger}, Hiroki Oota*, Naruya Saitou{ddagger}, Feng Jin§, Takayuki Matsushita|| and Shintaroh UedaGo,*

*Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;
{dagger}Department of Medical and Animal Genetics, Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;
{ddagger}Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan;
§Laboratory of Human Genetics, Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and
||Doigahama Site Anthropological Museum, Houhoku, Japan

Abstract

To examine temporal changes in population genetic structure, we compared the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of three populations that lived in the same location, Linzi, China, in different periods: 2,500 years ago (the Spring–Autumn era), 2,000 years ago (the Han era), and the present day. Two indices were used to compare the genetic differences: the frequency distributions of the radiating haplotype groups and the genetic distances among the populations. The results indicate that the genetic backgrounds of the three populations are distinct from each other. Inconsistent with the geographical distribution, the 2,500-year-old Linzi population showed greater genetic similarity to present-day European populations than to present-day east Asian populations. The 2,000-year-old Linzi population had features that were intermediate between the present-day European/2,500-year-old Linzi populations and the present-day east Asian populations. These relationships suggest the occurrence of drastic spatiotemporal changes in the genetic structure of Chinese people during the past 2,500 years.

Hmmmmmm.  You know me, I’m thinking about political implications, not mtDNA, right now.

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Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on Friday, December 29, 2006 at 10:35 PM in Anthropology,  Archeology,  Genetics & Human Bio-Diversity
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Book review of “Breeding between the Lines” by Alon Ziv

This is a book review of “Breeding between the lines: Why interracial people are healthier and more attractive,” by Alon Ziv, 184 pp., Barricade Books, 2006, ISBN: 1569803064. My preliminary impression that the book most likely doesn’t have decent data in it is confirmed.

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Posted by J Richards on Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 12:06 AM in Anthropology,  Books,  Ethnicity and Ethnic Genetic Interests,  Genetics & Human Bio-Diversity,  IQ and Heredity,  Psychology,  Race realism,  That Question Again
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Oh for G-d’s sake: insane miscegenation propaganda

Interesting new book out this week

Breeding Between the Lines: Why Interracial People are Healthier and More Attractive

by Alon Ziv

Book Description This book combines sex, race, health and genetics in a daring new theory. Written with accessible, direct prose, anecdotes, analogies, and examples from human and animal studies, it is sure to spark debate in a massive way.

Jay Phelan, Author of Mean Genes: Breeding Between the Lines is that rare book that is insightful and revolutionary, while remaining compulsively readable and downright fun.

Alon Ziv, Alon Ziv, why is that name pinging my Jewdar?

A member of the group least likely to miscegenate (with the world’s highest mean IQ as a direct result) persuades the rest of us to miscegenate in an insightful, revolutionary, readable and downright fun book.

Yay, more jewish psyops.

Addendum by J Richards

Svy, I simply have to add a few things to this entry, and I don’t think you would mind.

Here is the cover of the book by Alon Ziv.

Is the mixed race woman a match for white beauty?

Alon Ziv has to be insane if he believes that the broad-nosed and masculine mixed-race woman looks better.  Can people in their right mind believe that attractive white women can be improved upon if non-whites are absorbed into the white gene pool?

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Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at 09:06 PM in Anthropology,  Ethnicity and Ethnic Genetic Interests,  Genetics & Human Bio-Diversity,  Psychology,  Race realism,  That Question Again
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The evolution of blond hair and blue eyes among Nordics

Peter Frost has written a cool paper on the evolution of blond hair and the origin of the remarkable diversity of eye and hair color in Northern and Eastern Europeans.  His paper will be published in the upcoming March edition of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.  Frost is spot-on in nailing intense sexual selection as the primary reason for the high prevalence of blondness, which is of recent origin (less than 20,000 years old), and the unusual diversity of hair and eye color among Northern and Eastern Europeans.  Whereas Frost’s proposed reason for the intense sexual selection is open to debate, the conclusion that intense sexual selection is implicated is almost certain.  I am including his paper in this post, but will first mention some important implications.

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Posted by J Richards on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 07:26 PM in Anthropology,  Genetics & Human Bio-Diversity,  Race realism
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Christmas is Racist

People get emotional about the public display of the Nativity Scene.  Maybe the real reason it is so emotionally charged is not that it is sectarian but racist.

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Posted by James Bowery on Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 04:25 PM in Anthropology
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Of Penguins, Paleolithic Gender Ratio and White Fertility

Observing the reproduction of emperor penguins in March of the Penguins got me thinking.  Did paleolithic white males suffer a similarly high mortality rate during winter?  If so mating-age gender ratio may be the most under-rated controller of white fertility.

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Posted by James Bowery on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 06:55 PM in Anthropology
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Ecological correlations between IQ, skin color, temperature and GDP per capita

Here is some cool research that is about to be published in the journal Intelligence, though this research is unlikely to get a lot of press in the MSM.  The researchers (Donald Templer and Hiroko Arikawa) computed the correlations between the predominant skin color in 129 nations, GDP per capita, high and low mean temperatures in the summer and winter, and skin color.  The correlation between predominant skin color and population IQ was ? 0.92!  The meat of the data is presented in the Table below.

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Posted by J Richards on Friday, December 9, 2005 at 12:47 PM in Anthropology,  IQ and Heredity,  Psychology,  Race realism
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The evolution of civilization

A little while back, I put up a post about Melanesians (and the people of New Guinea in particular) that speculated on why Melanesians seem pretty bright despite their having been in the Stone Age within living memory.  A reader has offered the following interesting observations on the factors which may have affected their evolution and the evolution of civilization in general:

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Posted by jonjayray on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 09:39 PM in Anthropology
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Were the original Indo-Europeans from Europe, Asia or India?

I don’t know how well-founded the assertions below are but I offer them for discussion.  The text is translated from German by Germans who could obviously do with help from a native English-speaker

To define the ancestral homeland of the Indo-Aryans it is necessary to mind the results of modern archaeology, linguistic and anthropology. After a long discussion we know today, that the homeland of the Indo-Aryan tribes is not in India, Anatolia (?) or central Asia. The Indo-Aryans are of European origin!

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Posted by jonjayray on Sunday, July 10, 2005 at 09:24 PM in Anthropology
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Eurasians more attractive than ugly Caucasians, not average Caucasians: a reply to Gillian Rhodes

Recently, John Jay Ray posted part of a media report on a study alleging greater attractiveness ratings of Eurasian faces compared to Caucasian and Asian faces.  Surprisingly, John did not comment on the methodology used in the study, but its ridiculous absurdity needs to be exposed.

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Posted by J Richards on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 12:25 PM in Anthropology,  Psychology,  Race realism
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Racial variation in some parts of the skull involved in chewing

At some point, our ancestors made the switch to eating cooked food.  This allowed people to get by with a less robust chewing apparatus, and the chewing apparatus did indeed become less robust.  Therefore, an examination of racial variation in the chewing apparatus will surely reveal some interesting aspects of racial history.

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Posted by J Richards on Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 05:25 AM in Anthropology,  Race realism
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The health consequences of race mixing

The health consequences of race mixing among living organisms could be neutral, beneficial or harmful.  This issue has been difficult to address in humans, but data from random, population-based studies have started coming in, and here we consider the first such dataset.

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Posted by J Richards on Monday, June 6, 2005 at 05:38 PM in Anthropology,  Ethnicity and Ethnic Genetic Interests,  Health,  Race realism
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The facial proportions of beautiful people

We consider Saira Mohan again; this time with funky lines drawn on her face.  The lines are part of a unisex beauty mask/archetype that allegedly depicts the facial proportions of the most beautiful face, irrespective of race.


Figure 1: Saira Mohan with a superimposed beauty mask that is the brainchild of Stephen Marquardt of Marquardt Beauty Analysis.

The beauty mask appears to fit Saira Mohan reasonably well.  If the mask proportions apply to beautiful faces irrespective of sex or race, then the mask likely has some interesting biological significance.  Let us examine this issue.

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Posted by J Richards on Friday, June 3, 2005 at 11:14 AM in Anthropology,  Race realism
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Does race mixing increase physical attractiveness?

Does race mixing increase the likelihood of physical attractiveness?  Armand Marie Leroi, a developmental biologist at Imperial College, London, seems to think so, and as proof he offers the example of the “world’s most beautiful woman”: Saira Mohan, whose mother is French/Irish and father is Hindoo.

Figure 1: Saira Mohan on the cover of Newsweek, Nov. 10, 2003 (article here).

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Posted by J Richards on Saturday, May 28, 2005 at 10:11 AM in Anthropology,  Ethnicity and Ethnic Genetic Interests,  Race realism
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Does race exist? The stance of “Scientific American”…

The billboard shown below, the work of artist Nancy Burson, was displayed at the corner of Church and Canal streets in New York City in 2000.

Figure 1: An example of Nancy Burson’s artwork arguing that there is no gene for race.

Burson is right, there is no gene for race; however, there are genes for race, a cluster of alleles to be precise, the correlation structure of which defines race.

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Posted by J Richards on Monday, May 9, 2005 at 05:14 AM in Anthropology,  Race realism
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