HIS202H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phrenology
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What happened next: beginning in the mid 18thc and escalating over the course of the revolutionary era parts long seen were quite abruptly renamed, reclassified, and divided as male or female almost overnight : coined: vagina, labia, uterus, invented: idea of biological sex and the two sex system. Before race; complexion the idea of race not based on any new discoveries or biological facts emereged as an idea which brough together and combined many older concepts pre modern europe complexion referred to the inner nature of an individual or species complexion: constellation of heat, wetness, and temparment that mdade up an indivudal four element: earth, water, wind, fire four humors: blood individual differnces explained by complexion (balance of humours) climate and geography believed to determine complexion different places produced diffenet complexions example : asia a place of melancholy souls due to cold limate and abundance of black bile.
