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Originally Posted by Lutiferre
Perhaps in ethnohistorical anthropology..
But I dont see where it fits in in physical anthropology, which should be as objective as possible, and not based on the inevitable prejudice that will come out of knowing the persons origins.. you will already have judged what the person "likely" is and can "possibly" be, and take into consideration a lot of other things than what it in its essence is about: physical (anthropological) features.
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No, it should not build prejudice. But if say you have a case like
this, OEN could have told Christabel the individual was probably Bruenn and not Southern UP given his ancestry. Also it helps point in the right direction like I said, and you can try and find similarities with individuals of the same nationality. If these similarities are valid, then they can be used. If they are not, then they wont be used anyway.