I want to do research into different racial types - different kinds of humans , its called ethnology ??

Question

i am intersted in knowing most racial types in the whole world.

1 Starting from Caucasian, Negoid and Mongolid

2 further down another level - caucasian ( subdivided into anglo saxon, nordic, hispanic , aryan etc )

3 further down another level - aryan ( divided into indo aryan, turko iranian, central asian, north east european etc )

4 further down another level - indo aryan ( divided into punjabi, kashmiri, sindhi etc )

5 further down another level - punjabi ( divided into kukrain, tarkhan, ramgharia, etc )

Basically every race in the world. I want a link to read about them, what they look like, their nose, forehead, hieght, body types. Only racial inputs.

I think this science is called ethnology, i want to read more on the internet, preferably see photos on the net too, do you know any sites ?

Answer 1

Anthropologists have generally abandoned racial classifications because the system is faulty and simply not do-able. Most anthropologists will tell you that there is only one race of humans, and that the differences we see among us are recent and the result of evolution and adaptation to environments. Ethnology is the study of human cultures, and has nothing to do with the cultural construct of "race".

Answer 2

If you really wish to do this, be very careful as the landscape is littered with mine fields.  Political correctness will mandate that you do not make any statements indicating that one ethnic group has any inherent advantage over another in any field.  

Even the field of genetic research (a real science) is severely inhibited by politics that can destroy a career in an instant if one draws the improper conclusions (politically) from differing genes.

I'll post some links below!

Answer 3

Ethnographic studies are more culturally based then the morphological discriptions which you describe that you would like to learn about.  Plus in all scientific/social scientific realms the term "race" is an inappropriate distinction.  As it turns out from genealogical studies there is more variance within each of your "racial" groups then there are between these distinct groups and as-of-such this term "race" does not fit into the classification of different human peoples.  Ethnographic categories can be used broadly as you have described, but In terms of ethnographic studies you wouldn't study Caucasoid but instead would study the culture of Turkish goat herders, the British pub-culture or the culture of Hutterite settlements in Alberta, Canada.  If, as you say, you would like to study "every race in the world... what they look like, their nose, forehead, height, body types" then you are dealing with physical distinctions, not cultural distinctions and to deal with such descriptive morphological expression of genotypes then you are actually talking about genetic interpretations and not ethnographic ones.  This classification of gene frequencies throughout different populations and determining the occurrence and frequency of such features between groups would be more akin to studying haplogroups then to conducting ethnographic research.  These major haplogroups are classified as mtDNA (matrilineal) and YDNA (patrilineal).

Here are some examples so that you can see differing gene frequencies and spread throughout the world:

Basic diagram of global haplogroups

http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/tha...

Spread of the major mtDNA haplogroups

http://worldfamilies.net/migration_map_w...

Spread of the major YDNA haplogroups

http://jewsandjoes.com/images/FTDNA-Migr...

Global frequency of YDNA haplogroups

http://notavalidname.files.wordpress.com...

European YDNA Haplogroups

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/...

http://www.le.ac.uk/ge/maj4/EuropeMap+Tr...

http://www.historycy.org/index.php?act=A...

Generalized spread of major European haplogroups

http://dsa.duncanroots.com/Clan_News/DNA...

North American Native haplogroups

http://nahuatl.info/research/NorthHaplog...

Distribution of Indian mtDNA haplogroups

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/5...

African mtDNA haplogroup frequency

http://class.csuhayward.edu/faculty/gmil...

There is a lot of information about haplogroup spread and the resulting gene frequencies all over the internet.  These haplogroups will correspond with overall morphological expression of gene expression as well.  So since this is what you are interested in studying I suggest that this is what you should study as opposed to ethnography.

Here is an example of haplogroup distance representing different morphological expression:

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/4528/...

Answer 4

Ethnology is indeed simply cultural.  The biological science you are speaking about would be a study of "human variation."  These folks are the measurers.  Race has been pretty much abandoned though- check out Jared Diamond's "Race Without Color."  From the genetic standpoint, check out Spencer Wells' work for the Genographic Project.

Answer 5

If  u  really  want  to  do  that   then  it   choice