Rig Vedic Racism

[Lars Martin Fosse]

Dominique Thillaud wrote:

>        Even with the animals, the differences between them are not
>considered as "racial" but as "provenance". That's allways true today with
>the geographical names of cats, dogs, cows, &c. and I suppose the notion of
>"race" don't exist before Mendel.

Actually I think it does. But it is not terribly old, at least not in the
modern sense. The journal Discover ran a feature (rather large) on race and
the history of race research and race theories a couple of years ago. I am
sorry I can't give you any details, because I sent the copy I had to my
daughter. However, it is a quite useful set of articles, which I recommend.

Lars Martin


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