IDNO

P.7941.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Stature, France, Ripley, p.143.

Map showing the variances of the stature of men from France. The map is made after Broca 1868. [JD 3/11/2009] [JD 3/11/2009]

Place

W Europe; France

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Broca, Paul [Original Author]

Collector / Expedition

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Europe; Finland”, but research into Ripley’s publication shows that the groups are from Lithuania and Finland. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 2/11/2009]

Publication: All three images were published in Ripley, William Zebina, 1900, The Races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (London, K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd), p.143, with the following captions:
“Stature France, After Broca 68A.” [Full text available on Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: The following text is found in Ripley, 1913, p.144:
“This physical peculiarity of the people of this region appears clearly upon both our maps of stature. The peasantry are among the tallest in all France to-day. According to our first map, in the region about Dijon short men under five feet one inch and a half in height are less frequent than almost anywhere else in the country. The same tallness appears, as we shall see, among the western Swiss ; those who inhabit the ancient Burgundian territory. This latter fact would lead us to suspect that race was certainly an important element in the matter. The complexity of the problem is revealed when we compare this Teutonic giantism of the people with their extreme Alpine broad-headedness. A curiously crossed type has been evolved, found in Alsace-Lorraine as well. Here in Burgundy the present currents of migration are quite strong. Perhaps they may account for it in part. One factor contributing to the result we observe, is that the fertile country of the Saone Valley is* open to constant immigration from Switzerland and the surrounding mountains. The Rhine has drawn off the Teutons in another direction, and political hatreds have discouraged immigration from the northeast. The result has been that the Alpine type has been strongly re-enforced from nearly every side, while Teutonic elements have
been gradually eliminated. The tallness of stature once due to them may nevertheless have persisted, because of the great fertility of the distric.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: Broca, Paul. 1868. Nouvelles recherches sur 1 anthropologie de la France en general, et de la Basse Bretagne en particulier. (Mem. Soc. d anth., Paris, serie i, iii, pp. 147-209. Maps.) 4237.5o.ser. i, vol. 3