ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indian Removal Act, Noble Savage, Industrial Revolution
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Lecture 3: craniometry and racist anatomical measures, quantification and scientific racism. Scientific racism was to put things into number. Craniometry was the belief that the smarter you are the bigger your brain is. Robert bennet bean (genu) research on anatomy of brain function studied the anterior part of brain which is where the creativity part of the brain is or the more of the higher thinking is. Posterior part (splenium) of brain is more for balance. Ro(cid:271)e(cid:396)t be(cid:374)(cid:374)et bea(cid:374)"s resea(cid:396)(cid:272)h that (cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:271)(cid:396)ai(cid:374) gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) to ge(cid:374)u is supe(cid:396)io(cid:396) a(cid:374)d he would measure white, black, male, and female within each race and he expects white to be bigger. His results were that complete divergence that white and male were superior over black and female. Franklin mall was suspicious of bean and he redid his study and came up with one difference that he measured the brains blindly with no labels when measuring.
