Japhetic - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Japhetic: Encyclopedia Ii - Japhetic - Japhetic As A Geographical And Racial Concept
Traditionally, Japheth was understood to have been the progenitor of the peoples of Europe. Thus "Japhetic" came to be used as a synonym ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japheth: Encyclopedia - Japheth
Japheth (יֶפֶת / יָפֶת "enlarge", Standard Hebrew Yéfet / Yáfet, Tiberian Hebrew Yép̄eṯ / Yāp̄eṯ) is one of the sons ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan: Encyclopedia - Aryan
Aryan is an English word derived from the Indo-Aryan Vedic Sanskrit and Iranian Avestan terms ari-, arya-, ārya-, and/or the extended fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan - Etymology And History Of The Term
Indo-Iranian arya- descends from PIE *ar-yo-, a yo-adjective to a root *ar "to assemble skillfully", present in Greek harma "chariot", La...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan - Racist Connotations
The Aryan race was a term used in the nineteenth century by European racial theorists who believed strongly in the division of humanity i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan Invasion Theory: Encyclopedia - Aryan Invasion Theory
Aryan invasion theory, often abbreviated to AIT, is a term used to refer to the theory developed by 19th Century European linguists to ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia - Race
A race is a population of humans distinguished from other populations. The most widely used racial categories are based on visible trait...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan - Indo-iranian
Main article: Indo-Iranians. The most probable date for Proto-Indo-Iranian unity is roughly around 2500 BC. In this sense of the word Ary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan - Proto-indo-european
Max Müller and other 19th century linguists (see also Indo-European studies) theorised that the term *arya was used as the self-descript...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan Invasion Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan Invasion Theory - Origin Of The Theory
The theory arose from the discovery by William Jones that Sanskrit was related to the classical European languages Latin and Greek, and t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - The Origins Patterns And Physical Manifestations Of Human Genetic Variation
Race - Origins of modern humans. see also single-origin hypothesis, multiregional hypothesis. Any biological model for race must acco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - The Origins Patterns And Physical Manifestations Of Human Genetic Variation
Race - Origins of modern humans. see also single-origin hypothesis, multiregional hypothesis. Any biological model for race must acco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - The Origins, Patterns, And Physical Manifestations Of Human Genetic Variation
Race - Origins of modern humans. see also single-origin hypothesis, multiregional hypothesis. Any biological model for race must acco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - Historical Origins Of Race
Race - History of the term. Further information: Race (historical definitions) Given our visual acuity and complex social relationships...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - 20th- And 21st-century Debates Over Race
Race - Scale of race research. Discussions of race are complicated because race research has taken place on at least two scales (globa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - 20th- And 21st-century Debates Over Race
With the advent of the modern synthesis in the early 20th century, biologists developed a new, more rigorous model of race as subspecies...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - Case Studies In The Social Construction Of Race
Race - Race in the United States. In the United States since its early history, Native Americans, African-Americans and European-Americ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - Social Interpretation Of Physical Variation
Race - Incongruities of racial classifications. Even as the idea of "race" was becoming a powerful organizing principle in many societi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - Practical Uses Of Race
Race - Race in politics and ethics. Michel Foucault showed the popular historical and political use of a non-essentialist notion of "ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan Invasion Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan Invasion Theory - Modern Theory
While the classical "Aryan invasion" scenario – the idea that a wave of Vedic Aryan invaders were the cause of the Indus Valley Civiliz...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan Invasion Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan Invasion Theory - Later Developments
Even in the 19th century several theorists had criticised the use of the term "primitive [i.e. primal] Aryans" to refer to the earliest s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan Invasion Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan Invasion Theory - Role In Imperialism And Nazism
The theory that the original Aryans were northern Europeans who had migrated into India was used by some British imperialists as an ideol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan Invasion Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan Invasion Theory - Racial Aspects Of The Theory
Because of the view that the Aryans were the ancestors of Europeans it was assumed by many scholars that they must have been "white" cauc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryan Invasion Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryan Invasion Theory - Political And Religious Issues
In modern India, the discussion of Indo-Aryan migration is charged politically and religiously. Supporters of migration are faced with se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - Historical Origins Of Race
Race - History of the term. Given our visual acuity and complex social relationships, humans presumably have always observed and specul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - Case Studies In The Social Construction Of Race
Race - Race in the United States. In the United States since its early history, Native Americans, African-Americans and European-Americ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - Practical Uses Of Race
Race - Race in politics and ethics. Racial classifications were used during the Enlightenment to justify enslavement of those deemed to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - Social Interpretation Of Physical Variation
Race - Incongruities of racial classifications. Even as the idea of "race" was becoming a powerful organizing principle in many societi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Race: Encyclopedia Ii - Race - 20th- And 21st-century Debates Over Race
Race - Scale of race research. Discussions of race are complicated because race research has taken place on at least two scales (globa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japhetic: Encyclopedia Ii - Japhetic - Linguistics
The term Japhetic was also applied by William Jones, Rasmus C. Rask and other pre-Darwinian linguists to what later became known as the I...   » Read the article