ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Carl Linnaeus, Great Circle, Pantone
12 Apr 2017
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Anthropology 1ab3: race as a biological construct ! Previous department said you can"t use word race! three faces. When you look at them, you have labels based on a section of the globe/colour! You don"t even need a face, you can make a judgement by looking at piece of body! Part of you nature to put labels on things! 18th century swedish scientist, categorized species and plants and animals! A lot of the names persist, because there"s basis to them we think! He is rst described model homo sapiens ! Made his descriptions on basis on something pretty tangible; morphological or geographic ! Ie. two sets of mice that look very similar, but separated from such geographic boundaries they can"t mix so must be 2 diff species ! He also imparted moral judgement; viewed others as lesser ! Someone who imparted such great wisdom to eld was also biased and wrong !
