ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 57: Human Taxonomy, Living Fossil, Social Evolution

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1220
• Professor: Ellen R.Judd

Document Summary

This implies the idea of a living fossil . Unlinear social evolution explains away human diversity there is one basic social plan, just different stages. Critique of unilinear evolutionism (boaz): empirical problems, social change is multilineal like a tree, histories merge (ex: savages living next to civilized no wall/boundary, progress is a value laden term. Since the end of colonialism, new classifications have appeared: first, second, third, fourth world countries o 1st: western, 2nd: states of former soviet union o 3rd: any else china, 4th: indigenous groups within a country that they do not associate with. Global north (developed) and global south (less developed) Ancient societies, like the greeks, did not divide people according to physical differences, but according to religion, status, class or even language. The english word race turns up for the first time in a 1508 poem by. William dunbar referring to a line of kings.