ANTH 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lewis H. Morgan, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Louis Agassiz
7 May 2020
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A general idea about how phenomena are to be explained. More specific explanations that can be tested with empirical evidence. Darwinism had a strong impact on theory. Early thought is that culture evolved uniformly and progressively. 19th century anthropologists believed that culture evolves uniformly and progressively. A new york lawyer who wrote ancient society the leading opponent of evolutionism, whose historical particularism rejected the way in which early evolutionists had assumed that universal laws governed all human culture. Early theory cannot explain the details of cultural evolution and variation. Race theory came about due to systema naturae, a theory by carolus. Linnaeus, which placed humans in the same order as primates and placed them into four races (american, european, asiatic, and african) It was believed that races were fixed in nature, and that some cannot be civilized. Founder of the field of biological anthropology, divided humans into 5 races (caucasian, mongoloan, malayan, ethiopian, and american).
