ANTHROP 1AB3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Samuel George Morton, Peggy Mcintosh, Francis Galton
5 Dec 2018
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Identity: how you perceive yourself as an individual and as a collective member of society. Race: the presumed hereditary characteristics of a group of people. Karl linnaeus: first scientific racist, decided to divide people based on physical characteristics but also associated them with behaviour. Blumenbach: said everyone could be segregated into 1 of 5 groups (mongolian, malay, caucasian, Clinal variation: physical differences that exist are based on one"s proximity to the equator. Ancestry dna: makes claims of greater specificity that what they can project, small database, neo nazis use this to prove they are pure american and are sad to find they aren"t. Samuel george morton: compared cranial capacities of different racial groups to prove white people were superior. Dr. j phillipe rushton: looked at race and intelligence to prove the black people were somehow less intelligent that white people.
