Neue Anthropologie was a quarterly anthropology journal. It was published in Hamburg, West Germany by the Society for Biological Anthropology, Eugenics and Behavioural Science, whose chairman, Jürgen Rieger, was also the journal's editor. It served as a platform for neo-Nazi psychological and anthropological pseudoscience, with a particular focus on scientific racism.[1][2]
| Discipline | Anthropology |
|---|---|
| Language | German |
| Edited by | Jürgen Rieger |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1973-unknown |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Neue Anthropol. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0344-3124 |
| OCLC no. | 223441501 |
History
editNeue Anthropologie was established in 1973. It followed several similar journals published by the Society for Biological Anthropology, Eugenics and Behavioural Science, the first of which, Erbe und Verantwortung, was established in 1964.[3] The journal's first issue contained a tribute to Fritz Lenz, as well as an interview with Arthur Jensen that had previously been published in Nouvelle École. Jensen went on to contribute articles for the journal on a regular basis. In 1976, Neue Anthropologie published a bibliography of Jensen's work from 1967 until then; Jensen joined the journal's "board of scientific advisers" two years later.[4] Other board members included Donald A. Swan, an anthropologist and Mankind Quarterly editor who had received grants from the Pioneer Fund,[4] and Alain de Benoist, who also wrote for the journal under the pseudonym Fabrice Laroche.[5]
Content
editNeue Anthropologie published content supporting eugenics and scientific racism. This included articles focusing on race and intelligence, as well as polemics attacking "race-mixing".[6] According to Michael Billig, the content published in Neue Anthropologie "...is racist and it is preserving the racial philosophy of Nazi theorist Hans Günther."[7]
In 1978–79, they referred to a need to sterilize those like alcoholics, "who are often Haltlose psychopaths", from bearing children, to reduce crime.[8]
Links to neo-Nazism and fascism
editThe editor of Neue Anthropologie, Jürgen Rieger, was a prominent German fascist and member of the Northern League. Several other members of the journal's advisory board also had connections to neo-fascism and neo-Nazism, including Rolf Kosiek, Hans Georg Amsel, and F.J. Irsigler.[7] Ian Barnes noted that the journal's "...editorial board has links with The Northlander and one member belongs to the neo-Nazi Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) while others write for the neo-Nazi newspapers Deutsche Wochen-Zeitung and Deutsche Hochschullehrer Zeitung."[5]
Connections to Mankind Quarterly
editNeue Anthropologie was closely associated with Mankind Quarterly, of which it has been described as a sister journal. The two publications sometimes carried advertisements for each other, and published papers by many of the same authors, including some of the same articles.[9][7] The close similarity and connections between the two journals has also led to Neue Anthropologie being described as one of two European "clones of Mankind Quarterly" to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s (the other being Nouvelle École).[4]
References
edit- ^ "'New' anthropology". Patterns of Prejudice. 16 (1): 43–45. January 1982. doi:10.1080/0031322X.1982.9969656. ISSN 0031-322X.
- ^ "Arthur Jensen". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ "Jürgen Rieger and his pseudo‐science". Patterns of Prejudice. 17 (2): 40–44. April 1983. doi:10.1080/0031322X.1985.9969705. ISSN 0031-322X.
- ^ a b c Tucker, William H. (1996). The Science and Politics of Racial Research. University of Illinois Press. pp. 262–263. ISBN 9780252065606.
- ^ a b Barnes, Ian R. (October 1980). "The pedigree of GRECE — II". Patterns of Prejudice. 14 (4): 29–39. doi:10.1080/0031322X.1980.9969590. ISSN 0031-322X.
- ^ Mehler, Barry (1983). "The New Eugenics: academic racism in the U.S. today". Science for the People. 15: 18–23.
- ^ a b c Billig, Michael (1979). "Neue Anthropologie". Psychology, Racism & Fascism. A.F. & R. Publications. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
- ^ Knaack, Kirsten. Die Hilfschul: 8. Aktueller wissenschaftlicher Rassismus in der Neuen Rechten am Beispiel der Zeitschrift "Neue Anthropologie"
- ^ Lee, Martin A. (2013-10-23). The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. Routledge. p. 362. ISBN 9781135281243.