The Hamitic Race by somalia5: 1:28pm On May 02, 2013. 1  In the 19th century, as an application of scientific racism, Europeans classified the Hamitic race as a sub-group of the Caucasian race, alongside the Semitic race, grouping the non-Semitic populations native to North Africa, the Horn of Africa and South Arabia, including the Ancient Egyptians.
Semiotics definition, the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing. See more. Dictionary.com
Many who hear the word semiotics for the first time assume that it is the name of a new, and forbidding, subject. But in truth, the study of signs is neither very new nor forbidding. Its modern form took shape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through the writings and lectures of two men.