Commentary: Nationalism and Transnationalism in Anthropological Research.

In the 1920s, blood group researchers promised to put racial science on a more scientific footing. Nevertheless, women scientists had to contend with sexist attitudes in all stages of their careers as exemplified most clearly in Tildesley's case. The history of physical anthropology has most often been situated and studied in the context of specific colonial powers and nation states. [Extracted from the article]

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