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A NEW publication devoted to racial studies may count with certainty on an interested audience at the present moment, when racial questions have come to have an outstanding importance in international and national affairs. Racial characters have ceased to be regarded as of purely academic interest; but since they have been made the pivotal factor in nationalist propaganda, the public, bewildered by conflicting statements as to the meaning and province of ‘race’ in the modern world, welcomes an impartial and scientific examination of both general and specific problems. The Zeitschrift fur Rqssenkund und ihre Nachbargebiete, which has completed its first volume by the issue of a third part in May last, has been founded for the purpose of examining problems of race on scientific lines, dealing not only with broader issues, but also investigating racial problems as they arise in defined areas and specific groups. The treatment of the subject is not confined to discussion of physical characters alone, but will take into account the evidence of psychology and social anthropology, prehistory and linguistics. It is proposed thus to cover the whole field of the racial problems which arise in the study of the development of man in time and space. The editor is Egon, Freiherr von Eickstedt, director of the Anthropological and Ethnological Institute of Breslau; and he has secured a promise of co-operation and collaboration from a large and representative body of anthropologists from all over the world. Two volumes of three parts each will be published annually at a subscription price of 22 gold marks for each volume. The first part of the second volume appeared in July.
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Racial Studies. Nature 136, 577 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136577a0
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