ANTH 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Melanocyte, Essentialism, Racialization
15 Oct 2016
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Biological race=socioculturally create categorization based on phenotype, primarily skin color, with no actual biological or scientific foundation. Used to construct social hierarchies & barriers that purportedly explained and justified existing and emerging social relations. Genetic diversity- no racial divisions based on specific combinations of traits. Most diverse genetic variation in sub-saharan africa (park 2014:190) A folk taxonomy = a cultural translation of human variation. 18th century taxonomy of linnaeus involved in the character of races . Ashley montagu - 1942 - man"s most dangerous myth . Tasmania (park): south of australia, nearly wiped out of existence. Meanings shift and narrow in the 19th century. Race is a cultural invention with real life consequences for those being raced. Racialism = the belief that there are different biogenetic races. Alan goodman: race, invention, anthropology, biomedical research. Radical bioculturalism: race is a biological myth, but biology and race and important. Kennewick man found in washington analysed by chatters.
