Sonia Mary Cole
British anthropologist (1918–1982)
Sonia Mary Cole | |
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Born | Sonia Mary Syers 1919 (1919) Westminster, London, England |
Died | 1982 (aged 62–63) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Anthropology, archaeology, geology |
Institutions | British Museum |
Sonia Mary Cole (née Syers)[1] (1918 – 1982) was an English geologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and author.
Biography
Sonia Cole was born Sonya Syers in Westminster, London,[2] her mother marrying the 5th Earl of Enniskillen as her second husband, and Sonia herself marrying his nephew, the 6th Earl. Cole worked for the British Museum, and conducted extensive fieldwork in Africa. She was a close friend and colleague of Mary Leakey, who wrote her obituary.[3]
David Lowry Cole, 6th Earl of Enniskillen (1918–1989) was divorced from his first wife Sonia in 1955. By her, he had issue one son and one daughter.[4]
Cole is most remembered for her work Races of Man, which drew heavily from Carleton Coon.[5]
Works
- An Outline of the Geology of Kenya (1950)
- The Prehistory of East Africa (1954, 2nd ed. 1958, rev. ed. 1964)
- Races of Man (1963, 2nd ed. 1965)
- The Neolithic Age (1970)
- Leakey's Luck (1975)
References
- ^ Leakey, Mary (1982). "Sonia Mary Cole". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 17: vii–viii. doi:10.1080/00672708209511296.
- ^ "Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006". www.findmypast.co.uk.
- ^ Leakey, Mary (1982). "Sonia Mary Cole". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 17: vii–viii. doi:10.1080/00672708209511296.
- ^ Patrick Cracroft-Brennan. Enniskillen, Earl of (Ireland, 1789) Archived 2012-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, cracroftspeerage.co.uk; retrieved 5 January 2013.
The Enniskillen entry is somewhat outdated, in showing Arthur Gerald Cole still alive in 2013; he died in 2005, and his son Berkeley is the present heir presumptive. - ^ "Review: Races of Man", Stanley M. Garn, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 65, No. 6, Dec., 1963, pp. 1410-1411.
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Historical definitions of race
Scientific racism
- Black
- Bronze
- Brown
- Olive
- Red
- White
- Louis Agassiz
- John Baker
- Erwin Baur
- John Beddoe
- Robert Bennett Bean
- François Bernier
- Renato Biasutti
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- Franz Boas
- Daniel Garrison Brinton
- Paul Broca
- Alice Mossie Brues
- Halfdan Bryn
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- Charles Caldwell
- Petrus Camper
- Samuel A. Cartwright
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Sonia Mary Cole
- Carleton S. Coon
- Georges Cuvier
- Jan Czekanowski
- Charles Davenport
- Joseph Deniker
- Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt
- Anténor Firmin
- Eugen Fischer
- Francis Galton
- Stanley Marion Garn
- Reginald Ruggles Gates
- George Gliddon
- Arthur de Gobineau
- Madison Grant
- John Grattan
- Hans F. K. Günther
- Ernst Haeckel
- Frederick Ludwig Hoffman
- Earnest Hooton
- Julian Huxley
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Calvin Ira Kephart
- Robert Knox
- Robert E. Kuttner
- Georges Vacher de Lapouge
- Fritz Lenz
- Carl Linnaeus
- Cesare Lombroso
- Bertil Lundman
- Felix von Luschan
- Dominick McCausland
- John Mitchell
- Ashley Montagu
- Lewis H. Morgan
- Samuel George Morton
- Josiah C. Nott
- Karl Pearson
- Roger Pearson
- Oscar Peschel
- Isaac La Peyrère
- Charles Pickering
- Ludwig Hermann Plate
- Alfred Ploetz
- James Cowles Prichard
- Otto Reche
- Gustaf Retzius
- William Z. Ripley
- Alfred Rosenberg
- Benjamin Rush
- Henric Sanielevici
- Heinrich Schmidt
- Ilse Schwidetzky
- Charles Gabriel Seligman
- Giuseppe Sergi
- Samuel Stanhope Smith
- Herbert Spencer
- Morris Steggerda
- Lothrop Stoddard
- William Graham Sumner
- Thomas Griffith Taylor
- Paul Topinard
- John H. Van Evrie
- Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer
- Alexander Winchell
- Ludwig Woltmann
- An Essay upon the Causes of the Different Colours of People
in Different Climates (1744) - The Outline of History of Mankind (1785)
- Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question (1849)
- An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1855)
- The Races of Europe (Ripley, 1899)
- The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899)
- Race Life of the Aryan Peoples (1907)
- Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911)
- Castes in India (1916)
- The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
- The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920)
- The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930)
- Annihilation of Caste (1936)
- The Races of Europe (Coon, 1939)
- An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (1943)
- The Race Question (1950)