Giuseppe Sergi

Prof. Giuseppe Sergi
Born	1841
Died	1936
Residence	Director of Royal University, Rome 26 Via Collegi Romano, Rome [1927]
Occupation	anthropologist
Society Membership membership Hon. Fellow left 1936 deceased elected_AI 1898.01.11

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1898.01.11 Election of three Honorary Fellows. Letters were read from Dr Garson and Mr Maudslay, and discussion was carried on by Prof. Tylor, Mr Maudslay, Mr Rudler and Mr Brabrook as to these elections. It was finally decided to elect Dr Geo. Dawson of [blank], Senor Don Francisco del Paso y Troncoso of Mexico and Prof. Sergi of Rome.

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Giuseppe Sergi (March 20, 1841 – October 17, 1936) was an influential Italian anthropologist of the early twentieth century, best known for his opposition to Nordicism in his books on the racial identity of ancient Mediterranean peoples. He rejected existing racial typologies that identified Mediterranean peoples as "dark whites" because it implied a Nordicist conception of Mediterranean peoples descending from whites whom had become racially mixed with non-whites that he claimed was false. His concept of the Mediterranean race, identified Mediterranean peoples as being an autonomous brown race and that the Nordic race descended from the Mediterranean race whose skin depigmented to a pale complexion after moving north. This concept became important to the modelling of racial difference in the early twentieth century.