| Discipline | Anthropology |
|---|---|
| Language | German |
| Edited by | Jürgen Rieger |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1973-unknown |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Neue Anthropol. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0344-3124 |
| OCLC no. | 223441501 |
Neue Anthropologie was a quarterlyanthropology journal. It was published inHamburg,West Germany by theSociety for Biological Anthropology, Eugenics and Behavioural Science [de], whose chairman,Jürgen Rieger, was also the journal's editor. It served as a platform forneo-Nazi psychological and anthropologicalpseudoscience, with a particular focus onscientific racism.[1][2]
Neue Anthropologie was established in 1973. It followed several similar journals published by the Society for Biological Anthropology, Eugenics and Behavioural Science, the first of which,Erbe und Verantwortung, was established in 1964.[3] The journal's first issue contained a tribute toFritz Lenz, as well as an interview withArthur Jensen that had previously been published inNouvelle École. Jensen went on to contribute articles for the journal on a regular basis. In 1976,Neue Anthropologie published a bibliography of Jensen's work from 1967 until then; Jensen joined the journal's "board of scientific advisers" two years later.[4] Other board members includedDonald A. Swan, an anthropologist andMankind Quarterly editor who had received grants from thePioneer Fund,[4] andAlain de Benoist, who also wrote for the journal under thepseudonym Fabrice Laroche.[5]
Neue Anthropologie published content supportingeugenics and scientific racism. This included articles focusing onrace and intelligence, as well as polemics attacking "race-mixing".[6] According toMichael Billig, the content published inNeue Anthropologie "...is racist and it is preserving the racial philosophy of Nazi theoristHans Günther."[7]
In 1978–79, they referred to a need to sterilize those like alcoholics, "who are oftenHaltlose psychopaths", from bearing children, to reduce crime.[8]
The editor ofNeue Anthropologie, Jürgen Rieger, was a prominent German fascist and member of theNorthern League. Several other members of the journal's advisory board also had connections toneo-fascism andneo-Nazism, includingRolf Kosiek [de],Hans Georg Amsel, and F.J. Irsigler.[7]Ian Barnes noted that the journal's "...editorial board has links withThe Northlander and one member belongs to the neo-NaziNationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) while others write for the neo-Nazi newspapersDeutsche Wochen-Zeitung andDeutsche Hochschullehrer Zeitung."[5]
Neue Anthropologie was closely associated withMankind Quarterly, of which it has been described as asister journal. The two publications sometimes carried advertisements for each other, and published papers by many of the same authors, including some of the same articles.[9][7] The close similarity and connections between the two journals has also led toNeue Anthropologie being described as one of two European "clones ofMankind Quarterly" to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s (the other beingNouvelle École).[4]