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SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND 

 PSYCHOLOGY. 



March 25, 1901. ' 



Section met at 8:15 P. M., Professor Cattell presiding. 

 The minutes of the last meeting of Section were read and 

 approved. 



The following program was then offered : 



F. H. Giddings, The Use of the Term '' Race." 



Stansbury Hager, The Wards of Cuzco. 



Summary of Papers. 



Professor F. H. Giddings presented a paper on the use of 

 the term ''race." He spoke in part as follows: "The term 

 '' race " as used by many different groups of investigators — 

 anthropologists, ethnologists, philologists and historians — long 

 since ceased to have a definite meaning. Efforts to estab- 

 lish a technical and conventional use of the word have thus 

 far been unsuccessful. As one more attempt I suggest a 

 combination of the word ' race ' with various descriptive ad- 

 jectives, denoting successive degrees of kinship. The narrow- 

 est degree of relationship is consanguinity, or the relation- 

 ship (physiological, psychological and sociological) of father 

 and mother and children, brothers and sisters, grandparents 

 and grandchildren, uncles, aunts and cousins. Let us desig- 

 nate this degree of kinship by K^. The next degree of kin- 

 ship, or A'2 is propinquity. The primary meaning of this word 

 is ' nearness in place ' and the secondary meaning is ' near- 

 ness in blood.' The word is thus perfectly descriptive of a 

 state of facts which we find when a number of families live in 

 the same neighborhood and, through intermarriage and asso- 

 ciation, become related (but less closely than the consanguini 

 of A"j) in blood, in type of mind, and in institutions. K^ is 

 -nationality, that wide degree of kinship (physical, mental and 

 social) which includes those who speak the same language, 

 and, for many generations, have dwelt together under the same 

 political organization. A'^ is potential nationality, or the degree 



