贵州土家族体质人类学研究

本文对394名(男183人, 女211人)生活在贵州的土家族进行活体观察和测量(观察项目28个, 测量项目64个)。调查对象年龄18-55岁, 三代均为土家族。分析结果表明: 贵州土家族为圆头型, 男性正头型、女性高头型, 阔头型, 男性阔面型、女性中面型, 中鼻型, 窄肩型, 中间体型, 亚短腿型, 宽手型, 亚中等型身材。与我国南方其他20个少数民族群体聚类分析的结果显示: 贵州土家族体质特征与湖南瑶族、土家族、广西瑶族、贵州台江苗族最为接近, 与贵州布依族、广西壮族、海南黎族次之, 与湖南侗族、贵州过卯水族、毛南族、白裤瑶较远。

An Anthropometric Study of Tujia Nationality from Guizhou

The present paper reports a survey of anthropometric traits of 394 adults(183 males and 211 females) of Tujia nationality from Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County,Guizhou.Tujia is one of the 56 officially recognized nationalities in China.The studied samples are all adults(18 and 55 year old) with the confirmation that all of their parents and grandparents are of Tujia nationality.The study includes 28 observations and 64 measurements.Important indices of head,face and body were calculated based on the measurements and frequencies of different types were categorized and tabulated accordingly in the paper.The cluster analysis of the present dataset was conducted with those published earlier by others for 20 other minority groups from southern China,revealing that Tujia group in this study is most closely related to Yao,Tujia in Hunan,Yao in Guangxi and Mao in Guizhou.