ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Craniometry, Polygenism, Homo Sapiens
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Scieniic racism thesis that social, cultural, and biological diferences between diferent human groups are expressions of fundamentally diferent biological stocks (breeds, races). Racism is not the same thing as prejudice. Racism is the belief that humanity is divided into discrete types of people. Prejudice is negaive aitudes about a certain type of people. )typologizing is the noion of puing things into types. In 1735 he published a book that classiied humans as a species called homo sapiens. In 1758, he discerns various variants of humans: four types of homo sapiens: europaeus albescens, asiaicus fucus, homo sapiens africanus negreus, homo sapiens americanus rubescence. Bluemenbach (1781) races race was originally applied to animals (breeds). Bluemenbach used this term for humans (scieniic usage). He concluded 5 diferent human races: caucasian (white), mongolian (yellow), malay (brown), ethiopoian (black), and american (red). Hooton (1926) narrowed races down to 3: caucazoid (european), mongoloid (east. Asians: chinese, viets, malaysians, naive americans), and negroid.
