Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - ATTITUDES OF SERBIAN BIOLOGICAL
ANTHROPOLOGISTS TOWARD THE CONCEPT
OF RACE
AU  - Štrkalj G
AU  - Bošković A
AU  - Buturović Ž
Y1  - 2019
VL  - 57
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 287
EP  - 297
KW  - Race – Biological anthropology – Attitudes – Serbia
N2  - 
N2  - The status of the concept of race in modern biological anthropology is not clear. While in some countries
(e.g. in the USA, Australia and most of Western Europe) the majority of biological anthropologists favour the nonracial
approach to the study of human variation, in others (e.g., China and most of Eastern Europe), racial approach,
both populational and typological, is still utilized. In addition to the fact that human variation is a complex subject
and almost by its very nature lends itself to different interpretations, it has been shown in a number of studies that the
ways in which human biological variation is conceptualised is highly dependent on the socio-political context and the
way the anthropological community is functioning within this broader framework. This study reports the results of
a questionnaire based survey focusing on the attitudes of Serbian biological anthropologists towards the concept of
race. It was found that the majority of respondents still accept the race concept. It is hypothesized that this is for
a variety of reasons, including the development of the discipline in relative isolation from the centres of excellence in
bio-anthropological research, lack of appropriate academic infrastructure and research funding. Further research,
including surveys of academic communities in other countries and research traditions might throw more light on the
elusive subject of the status of the concept of race in biological anthropology.
ER  -