GGR240H1 Final: Exam_
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Modernity: par%cular constella%on of power, knowledge, and social prac%ces who can be traced to. Reason, ra%onality, and scien% c truth. Obsessed with precision and truth. Use of the grid, accuracy of distance: consequences of modernity: as the world transforms, much is destroyed. Loca%ng them within nature rather than culture: to encounter nature was terrifying for the europeans sevling in north america. Seen and wriven about as extreme/deviant/di erent. The norse called these indigenous peoples skr ling. Blumenbach: german physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He was one of the rst to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. This was a founding work for other scien%sts in the eld of craniometry. The bering land bridge/beringia: in historical contexts it also includes the bering land bridge, an ancient land bridge roughly. 1,000 miles (1,600 km) wide (north to south) at its greatest extent, which connected asia with.