ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Philosophy, Stephen Jay Gould, Fallacy
7 Oct 2017
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Classical antiquity: physical differences mostly attributed to the environment. Middle ages: classical view melded with biblical story of noah and the great flood. 17th century: francious bernier first comprehensive attempt to classify all people into a few discrete categories (1684) Humans in linnaean taxonomy carl linnaeus included humans in his taxonomy of animals in the order primate. Humans classified as homo sapiens subdivided into four geographic subspecies subspecies: a population of a particular region that is genetically distinguishable from other such populations of the same species. American: ruled by habit, red, ill tempered, subjugated, obstinate. European: ruled by laws, white, serious, strong, active, smart, inventive. African: ruled by caprice, black, impassive, lazy, crafty, slow, foolish. Asian: ruled by opinion, yellow, stiff, melancholy, greedy, severe, haughty. Effo(cid:396)ts to (cid:395)ua(cid:374)tify (cid:373)o(cid:396)phologi(cid:272)al diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g p(cid:396)esu(cid:373)ed (cid:862)spe(cid:272)ies(cid:863) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s centered on analysis of skulls. The practice of craniometry revealed a disturbing racial bias in the ways data were developed.
