Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India
Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen: Anthropology and Statistics in Early Post-Independence India
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衡量种族、空间和公民：印度独立后早期的人类学和统计学
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10.1080/00856401.2024.2306567
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2024
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Gould W
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本文探讨了印度人类学家如何在二十世纪中叶使用“空间”和“距离”的抽象概念来重新配置种姓和社区的种族科学方法。从P.C.的工作看统计学与体质人类学的关系。Mahalanobis和D.N.在20世纪40年代中后期的联合省的Majumdar，本文探讨了概念（或欧几里得）空间与地缘政治空间（生活距离）在种姓定义中的相互作用。人类学和统计学的结合产生了对差异和距离的新的测量方法，这反过来又赋予婆罗门教的等级观念以特权，加强了空间同质性的观念，并促成了对公民的新的种族定义。
This article explores how Indian anthropologists employed abstract concepts of ‘space’ and ‘distance’ in the mid twentieth century to reconfigure the racial scientific approaches to caste and community. Looking at the relationship between statistics and physical anthropology via the work of P.C. Mahalanobis and D.N. Majumdar in the United Provinces in the mid to late 1940s, the article explores how conceptual (or Euclidian) space interacted with geopolitical space (lived distances) in definitions of caste. The combination of anthropology and statistics produced new measurements of difference and distance that, in turn, privileged Brahmanical conceptions of hierarchy, reinforced the idea of spatial homogeneity and contributed to new ethnic definitions of the citizen.