ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hypodescent, Absolute Dating, Osteology

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Thomas Chivens

Document Summary

Hispanic and latino as ethnic categories that crosscut socially constructed racial categories. Race and ethnicity, as with any cultural category of classification, vary in terms of what they mean in different places. Language, religion, skin color, educational background, etc. United states - hypodescent (child will assume the position of lower class parent) In brazil, built on phenotype and fluidity: less exclusionary than racial categories in the us or japan (less ascribed, more achieved, lacks hypodescent, allows for shifting racial designations, draws more nuanced physical differences (phenotypes), unlike the us or. Japan: race often has less day-to-day significance, but that does not mean that there is no racism in brazil. Biological anthropology links to making cultural visible : Taphonomy : study of the processes that affect the remains of dead animals. Relative dating is placing things in time relative to one another.