CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Ethnic Group, Third Culture Kid
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Chys 2p38 lecture 4 jan 26th 2016. Depended on reports coming back from officers, missionaries, etc. There are three classes of societies in the world. Dunn"s civilization and cerebral development argues that (nordic) europeans enjoyed. Whole brain development , while the carib, negro and irish from leitrim, sligo and. Applied concept of recapitulation ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny to child development as an explanation for racial differences. Physiological racial differences were minimal in small children, developed during adolescence. Anthropometry after the us civil war made the assumptions that cranial structure development, particularly closure of the cranial sutures indicated arrested cognitive development. We know now that there is no significant difference in physical structure between race. Started as a science in the late 19th century. As young people grew children of other races (not euro), their brain structures would close faster child of another race. Cognitive development of euro children would surpass the ability of a.