HISTORY 178 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Monogenism, Judensau, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
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1348-1350 1,000s of jews burned at the stake for the black death. 1290-1492 all of western europe is cleaned of jews in a series of explosions all to eastern europe (poland) Judensau - depiction of jews engaged in acts of beastiality with pigs. Devil in picture has a jewish badge. Simon of trent up at the top. Jewish women gives birth to live pig dehumanization. In 17th + 18th cent have industrial revolution, enlightenment (intellectual revolution) and political revolution. In enlightenment - observations of human difference and human equality at same time as empirialism, slavery, voyages of discovery. On voyages asked - if all people are created equal why are these people hunter gatherers when we are eating in restaurants. 18th cent anthropology + biology seeked to provide answers to questions of human difference. Great chain of being - aristotle - all organism are related to each other and there"s a ladder of ascent.
