ASIANAM 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carl Linnaeus, Caucasian Race, Homo Sapiens
27 Jun 2016
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9/26/15: anthropology, study of human biological and cultural differences across space and time (through human. History): concepts: scientific racism and the other is social revolution, anthropology left these concepts behind because they limit the explanation of human diversity. Intro to scientific racism: defined as thesis that social, cultural and physical differences between human groups are expressions of fundamentally different biological stalks, racism is not the same thing as prejudice. Prejudice is a negative attitude towards some group of people. Racism is hate that is learned by parents. Racism is an aspect of type inherited from parents to offspring: history of race, example of typologizing: dealing with things as set types of things. How did some types of typologies developed in europe: racial categories: b. i. Linneaus: developed the system of classification that we use in biology today. 1735 is when he coined the species name for humans as homo sapiens. b. ii. 1758 he had different variants of human species. b. iii.
