ANT 4560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Monogenism, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Carl Linnaeus
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Race: the dark horse" of anthropology, categorization of the other", typologies support classification of people into discrete categories, superior vs. inferior categories, support for eugenics, racial markers, indigenous races of the earth (1857) Providing validity to the race concept which allowed european imperialism up to ww2. Linnaeus was a racist: categorized humans based on skin color and geographical location, binomial nomenclature used to subdivide homo sapiens species based on racist ideals. Monogenism vs. polygenism: blumenbachs classification system. Samuel george morton: crania americana (1839, european, asian, native american, african. Morton and blumenbach provided physical justification for racism. Anthropometry: measurement of different aspects of the body, usually used for comparison. Franz boas: father of american anthropology, among the first to challenge the taxonomy of human variation, traits used to measure race" were not static, against racism, pro womens rights. Ales hrdlicka: founded/curated the smithsonian museum, avid skull collector, american journal of physical anthropology (1918, american association of physical anthropology (1928)
