ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Negroid, Homo Sapiens, Fucus
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Two ideas of human differences in the 19th century: racism and social evolutions. Abandon both of these ideas because they produce limitations: intro to scientific racism. The thesis that social and behavioral differences between different human groups are expression of fundamentally different biological stocks. Racism is not the same thing as prejudice; prejudice has attitude. 1735 laid out humans (primates) as a classification. Sailors describe these people as monsters: blumenbach (1781) First person to use race as a word and put it into a scientific category for variation in a species. Caucazoid (found in europe, middle east, india, central asia) Mongoloid (found in eastern asia, philippines, native american, native islands) Negroid (found in africa: characteristics of racial types, salient physical features. Salient means something that is obvious and grabs your attention: behavioral and cognitive propensities. Asians were held to be melancholy and rigid. There are different inferior and superior races: monogenesis and polygenesis, monogenesis.
