ISSN 1827-4765

Volume 96 (2018)

Announcement

The Manifesto of Human Diversity and Unity, eighty years after the Italian racial laws

 

On July 14, 1938, the “Manifesto della razza” was published in “Il Giornale d’Italia” with the title “Il Fascismo e il problema della razza” (see Appendix). This document claimed the existence of a “pure Italian race”, in the biological sense of the term, which would have remained substantially unchanged for more than a thousand years years and whose “Aryan” origin preserved (Gillette, 2001). The manifesto paved the way for the introduction of racial laws, a series of measures, mainly directed against...

 

 

The Journal of Anthropological Sciences (JASs) is the official publication of the Istituto Italiano di Antropologia (ISItA). It is the continuation of the Atti della Società Romana di Antropologia (from 1893 to 1910) and Rivista di Antropologia (until 2003).


The JASs publishes original articles, notes and reviews concerning of evolutionary anthropology (human paleontology, prehistory, biology and genetics of extinct and extant populations), with particular attention towards interdisciplinary approaches. Each manuscript is subjected to review by specialists.

 

According to the Oasis initiative of the Istituto Italiano di Antropologia, all JASs articles are published in Open Access, and authors are asked to make their research data available (see the Authors section).
 

Other Indexing sources: Anthropological literature, Anthropology Index online, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Index Copernicus, PrimateLit and SCOPUS (Elsevier).
 

2017 ISI Impact Factor 2.667 (ranked 9/85 in Anthropology)
 
 
Editor
Giovanni Destro-Bisol (Roma, La Sapienza)
Associate Editors
Paolo Anagnostou (Sapienza, Roma) Alan Goodman (Hampshire College, Amherst MA, USA)
Markus Bastir (MNCN, Madrid, Spain) Andrea Manica (Cambridge, UK)
Francesca Brisighelli (Università Cattolica, Roma) Noreen Von Cramon Taubadel (Buffalo, New York, USA)
Maria Enrica Danubio (L'Aquila, Italy)
International Referees
Francesc Calafell (Barcelona, Spain) Bonaventura Majolo (Lincoln, UK)
David Comas (Barcelona, Spain) Osbjorn Pearson (Albuquerque, USA)
Giuseppe Donati (Oxford, UK) Fernando V. Ramirez Rozzi (Paris, France)
Peter Ellison (Harvard, USA) Jorge Rocha (Porto, Portugal)
Colin Groves (Canberra, Australia) Callum F. Ross (Chicago, USA)
Henry Harpending (Salt Lake City, USA) Clark Spencer Larsen (Columbus, USA)
John Hawks (Madison, USA)  Cristopher B. Stringer (London, UK)
Ralph L. Holloway (New York, USA) Sarah Williams-Blangero (San Antonio, USA)
Víctor M. Longa (Santiago, Spain) Bernard Wood (Washington, USA)
 
 
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