ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Biological Anthropology

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

Document Summary

Anthro lecture 7 notes: race originally vague term for type, variation. Concept not popularization till 18th century": european colonization, ideological conflicts with slavery, division, ranking of humans into groups, effort to link physical trails to intellectual, moral attributes, justification for human persons as property. 19th early 20th century, anthropologists worked to categorize humans into (arbitrary) groups: differences in phenotypes (physical characteristics, head shape (craniometrics), eye color, skin color, hair type. Caucasian refers to caucasus mountain: christopher miners, outline of history of mankind( 1785) Concept of race not challenged in biological anthropology until 20th century: c. loring brace and frank livingstone at michigan, (cid:862)there are no race only lines(cid:863) For human groups (races) to be biological, they must be: generically discrete, reliably measured, scientifically meaningful.