Talk:Carleton S. Coon

message: There should be more info here about Coon's role in North Africa, based on historical sources other than Coon's own recollections. Generally speaking, this article could do with more factual biographical emphasis, who he  studied with, etc., with less space given to Coon's out-dated racial theorizing. Mballen (talk) 13:54, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Coon was primarily known for his anthropological work. He was, after all, the president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. His covert intelligence work was ancillary to that, but was nonetheless a reason for his sojourn in the Maghreb. Soupforone (talk) 16:56, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
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message: Very dubious that a prep-school such as Andover would offer hieroglyphics. Latin and Ancient Greek were the standard curriculum at such prep-schools, it would be more accurate to say that "he excelled at classical languages" (if that was the case). Mballen (talk) 19:13, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: At most it would have been cursory and not worth a mention. Even his study of classical languages is fairly trivial and we'd rarely say excelled.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs) 06:22, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

text: And he did not study Egyptology with George Reisner, he took a freshman course with him, that's all. Someone was misreoresenting his education. Doug Weller talk 06:35, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This link is interesting. Doug Weller talk 06:42, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Studied hieroglyphics at Andover?  

message: Really needs work Doug Weller talk 06:51, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead is in no way a summary of the article 

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message: :I recently corrected an error on this article which stated that Mediterraneans are generally characterized by "robust" features, by including links to the work of Carleton Coon and another anthropologist of his era (Hans Gunther). 
:I want to stress that I am not a believer in this kind of folk taxonomy or racial science of any kind, just clearing up facts about what these authors said about the Mediterranean "race".
:Below, another quote from Carleton Coon about Mediterraneans from his book "Caravan - The Srory of the Middle East"--Hunan201p (talk) 14:18, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mediterranean "race" error 

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message: A lot of the article is original research citing primary sources like The Races of Europe and other Coon writings, but should instead reflect the interpretation of an independent source.  —PaleoNeonate – 06:45, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, the Racial theories section in particular has far too much 'in-universe' material that would be better suited to a scientific racist fan wiki. – Joe (talk) 08:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary sources 

message: The article mentions the Chinese professor / Australian Aborigine photo caption in Coon's book without explaining that this caption was what catalyzed controversy among the young anthropologists of the 1960s who found Coon's approach hopelessly antiquated and somewhat objectionable... AnonMoos (talk) 14:43, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. Do you have any references? – Joe (talk) 14:53, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought I had read about it in a Stephen Jay Gould essay, but I'm not having much luck finding it with searches. AnonMoos (talk) 22:24, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
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