section 2: part 1

Anthropology 210 with Dautartaus at University of Tennessee - Knoxville

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By: Chelsea Stone
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Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge
Telecourse Study Guide (Cultural Anthropology: Our Diverse World) for Haviland/Prins/Walrath's Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge, 12th
Created: 2010-05-05
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earliest records of recognizing physical differences b/w people

egyptians

Ethipoia "scorched one"

Homer and Herodotus-"scythians"; lighter hair and skin color

names established by?

greeks

who didn't mention much about differences, why?

romans, cohesion/assimilation-become Roman by worshiping their gods

during this time europeans came into contact w/many people that were new to them

age of discovery: 15-16th century

what is monogenism, and who declared this in 1537?

Pope Paul II when he declared all humans one creation

how does the great chain of being define diversity?

1. ancient

2. permanent

3. divinely ordained

what determines what position on the great chain of being scale humans occupy?

profession

who was known as the great classifier, and why?

linnaeus

-all living things classified, with humans on top of chain

-first to put humans in classification with primates

why is subspecies in Linnaeus classification not accurate

because humans must be reproductively isolated in order for this to be true

A student of Linnaeus who did not believe in the great chain of being

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

how did Blumenbach classify humans?

geographically(like Lin), explicit ranking

what was wrong with Blumenbach's notion that transmission of acquired characteristics shaped people?

this is not how genetics function

ex. neck would grow within a lifetime of a giraffe to reach trees

what emerged in the 17th and 18th century relating to classifications in Europe?

Ethnocentric(viewing as superior)

sterotypes were being incorporated into classification

how did the hierachial nature of this classification imply inequality?

-scientific legitimacy to a worldview that had social, political, and economical consequences

-make judgments on values, determinatiion of behavior and characteristics

ex. ut students vs. harvard students

what were the three features of 19th century racial classifications?

1. dived into a fixed number

2. moral and intellect not evenly distributed

3. mental capabilities associal w/physical traits

what does polygenisis refer to?

that humans were created in 4004 b.c. , according to the bible

why is polygenesis not accurate?

this wouldn't give enough time for all the variation observed in humans

what theoretical bases did louis agassz give for polygenesis

the story of adam referred to the causcasian creation

who tried to rank skull size to intelligence?

Morton(Moron is a good way to remember this guy)

why was this wrong?

compared european and african american by filling brains with dry beans to measure skull size. only reason euros were ranked higher b/c more female skulls used for africans; which are naturally smaller

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