SY102 Lecture Notes - The Great Brain Robbery (Album), Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas, Italian Canadians

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Collected and measured human skulls that came from various times and places. Their original occupants were members of different races. Believed he could show that the bigger your brain the smarter you were. Found that races ranking highest in the social hierarchy had the biggest brains while those ranking in lowest had the smallest brains. Those w/ the biggest were white of european origin, then were asians, native north americans, and lowest was blacks. Said that power, wealth, and intelligence were due to brain size and mental capacity. Thus people used findings to justify colonization and slavery. 3 main issues compromise his findings: archaeologists today cannot precisely determine race by skull shape. Thus it is unclear whether his skulls belonged to whites or blacks: his skulls formed a small, unrepresentative sample, 71% of skulls he identified as negro were women"s compared to 48% of the skulls he identified as. Women"s bodies are on average smaller than men"s.

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