ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ashley Montagu, Carl Linnaeus, Franz Boas
15 Jul 2016
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Presumed heredity characteristics of a group of people. Taken for granted in mainstream society that races actually exist. Race is a culturally constructed identity with real consequences. Conrad kottack race in brazil: race as a continuum rather than fixed category, colourism . Political purposes: susie phipps, louisiana, hitler and the aryan race. We think of race as an ascribed status but race is a cultural concept, not a biological one. Therefore important area of study for anthropologists. It is an illusion that there are races. The diversity of human beings is so great and so complicated that it is impossible to classify 5. 8 billion individuals into discrete races" . Groups of organisms that are reproductively isolated from others: dogs and cats. Sub-species: sub-division of species, sufficient geographic isolation to create difference. All humans are species of homo sapiens. Those who advocate the idea of race as a biological category argue that different races are akin to sub-species.
