SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hutu, Miscegenation, Tutsi

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 101
• Professor: Stacy Pigg

Document Summary

Concern: how and why humans have been categorized into types : race, intelligence, class, and other categories. Noah"s sons story is developmental - takes social processes that everyone understands from their own experience and projects them onto what they believe to be the pattern of history. However, 19th century comes a new theory - theory of evolution: gradual transformation of species - a biological process. The evolutionary story - progressivist narrative - where humanity ascends through struggle and triumph up from an ape-like ancestor: this made it possible to talk about gaps and missing links and ape-men . o. It also made possible to refer to difference races as less evolved than others. Charles darwin - natural selection and sexual selection. Political implications of race: adolf hitler - nazi movement, this way of thinking became unpopular after world war ii. Population genetics - ideas derived from genetics, statistics and evolutionary theory.