HUMR 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gustav Jahoda, Scientific Racism, Biological Anthropology
27 Nov 2016
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Migration is determined by the interrelation of production, trade, and warfare. Imagery, beliefs, and evaluations about the other created to explain the appearance and (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour of the (cid:862)other(cid:863) Dialectic of self and other in which these characteristics of other refract contrasting self, and vice versa. Khloin saw their own physical environment as tame and peaceful even though europeans saw it as wild and savage. Notion that europeans ignorance is the real savagery. Interpreted as natives not understanding the true intentions of the british: natives not being capable of understanding their own nature and backwardness. Bias stems to the point where should a european relegate to such actions it is justifiable or excusable as it is not part of their inherent culture or being. Greeks would however associate colour symbolism with various behaviours and emotions (white with happiness and peace, and black with death and the underworld) Greco-romans did not view blacks as negatively.
