ANTH 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Fredrik Barth, Moe Williams, Skin Cancer
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Reflectivity correlates to geography, not populations or races . People who live near the equator have darker skin. Folic acid is important for the development of spine. Shapes understandings of diversity around the world. But racial ideas and social relations are quite varied. A sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group. (guest 156) Social relations of ethnicity and the environment. Society stratified economically and politically along the lines of ethnicity ( race , language, religion, etc. ) Social hierarchies are organized and formed around race. Settler occupation formed racial segregation by separating people based on their white and black skin. Set up legal courts to determine races of people. People in the same family were even separated into different races. Townships - towns with black people, outside of white city centers. Bantustans - africans" national territories in south africa.