ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Teotihuacan, Broadspectrum, Machu Picchu
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Anthropology 101 lecture 7: categorization of humans: linnaeus, buffon, concept not popularized till 18th century, european colonization, ideological conflicts with slavery, division, ranking of humans into groups, effort to link physical traits to intellectual, moral attributes. Justification for human persons as property: one drop rule in us: 1/32 african ancestry (one great-great-great-grandparent) legally defined as. African american: 19th-early 20th century:anthropologists worked to categorize humans into (arbitrary) groups, differences in phenotype (physical characteristics) e. g. head shape (craniometrics), eye color, skin color, hair type. Better chopping ability, more varied, more specialized: tools= regular access to meat and processing plants more efficiently = less demand for chewing, impacts selective pressure on teeth and jaws, signals a major cognitive leap, erectus adapts. Inherited but no stratification (presence of social divisions with unequal distribution of wealth and power: state. A society with a central gov"t, administrative specialization and social classes (208: theories of state formation, hydraulic agriculture (irrigation, egypt and mesopotamia, regional trade.