Mankind quarterly
Abbreviation:
Mankind Q.
Published by:
Ulster Institute for Social Research
Publisher Location: London, England, UK
Journal Website:
http://www.mankindquarterly.org/archive
Range of citations in the SafetyLit database:
2013; 54(1/2) --
2022; 62(3)
Publication Date Range:
1961 --
Title began with volume (issue):
1(1)
Number of articles from this journal included in the SafetyLit database:
9
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pISSN = 0893-4649 | eISSN = 0025-2344
USNLM = 9427287 | OCLC = 00820324 | CONSER = sf 89-30002
Find a library that holds this journal: http://worldcat.org/issn/08934649
Journal Language(s):
English
Aims and Scope (from publisher):
Mankind Quarterly was founded as a quarterly journal of anthropology, in the broadest sense of “the science of man,” in 1961. This was a time when the study of man had already diversified into physical anthropology, ethnography, quantitative cross-cultural research, archaeology and other subspecialties.
istorically, Mankind Quarterly has earned a reputation for publishing articles in controversial areas, including behavioral race differences and the importance of mental ability for individual outcomes and group differences. During the “Bell Curve wars” of the 1990s, it became a target of attack when opponents realized that some of the work cited by Herrnstein and Murray had first been published in Mankind Quarterly. However, much of this science has stood the test of time. For example, the importance of genes for individual differences in intelligence is no longer controversial, and genetic effects on individual and group differences that were merely inferred in earlier research are now studied at the molecular level. There is nothing wrong with being at the embattled forefront of new scientific developments.
Most of the research that the Mankind Quarterly publishes today is “normal” science, but the editors still welcome controversy and new ideas. They see it as part of the journal’s mission to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of theories and empiric research that challenge entrenched beliefs.
These developments took place against the background of a widening gulf between the biological and social sciences. Following the leading dogma of the day, cultural and social anthropologists in academe had begun to deny the importance of biology for behavioral and cultural phenomena. Conversely, biological (physical) anthropologists aligned themselves with the “hard” sciences, many describing themselves as human biologists rather than anthropologists in an attempt to distance themselves from a social anthropology that they no longer saw as scientifically sound. In many places, these divisions persist to the present day. Mankind Quarterly was founded as a response to these centrifugal trends. Its founders believed in the interdependence of human biology, behavior and culture, and they understood biological and cultural diversity as the outcomes of evolutionary, ecological, and historic processes.
In short, Mankind Quarterly was established as a journal for those scholars who still believed in a unified “science of man” that studies the interactions between biological and cultural diversity.
