ANTH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Brain Size, White Supremacy, Marvin Harris
28 Mar 2016
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European invention of race + racial hierarchy justified + enabled colonization/enslavement of non-euro territories + places. Sugar plantations scientific beliefs (anthropology) + race cultural (now at this point) Anthropology came from colonial expansion of europe over non west. Anthropologists were participants in the colonial system that made relationships b/w westerners and others. Anthro- physical + cultural evolution (savagery- barbarism- civilization- enlightenment) hunters+ gatherers modern civilization. Ancestors, living pieces of the past anthropologist invented the concept of primitive lesser than the european (culturally+intellectually) primitive people were dubbed as children that needed protection+education colonialism justified help them develop travel ogs scientific expedition/data. Knowledge of other was/is crucial for understanding the self . *cranial capacity headsize smaller brain smaller less intelligent (disproven but thought to be true) some humans had smaller heads/brains brain size- used to be a focal point on determining intelligence. Columbus brought indigenous americans from voyages to new world to the spain.
