ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sickle-Cell Disease, Ascribed Status

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AB3
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

How you perceive yourself as an individual and as a collective member of society. We all have a variety of identities: gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), national identity, and so on. Race refers to the presumed hereditary characteristics of a group of people. We think of race as an ascribed status. But, race is a cultural concept, not a biological one, and therefore, it is important to study ad anthropologists. How did people try to link biology and race. But humans are complex and these categories themselves are not real. Race, place and face: classi cation of the natural world, 27th-18th century, human biology tied to geography. Challenges to the concept of race: human populations aren"t alike. Adaptive response to malaria burden: most human traits vary independently 9e. g, not connected to race ) Broad geographic patterns local populations different, people are not morphologically distinct.