ANTH 3020- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Skulls part of a collection from 19th century; morton"s collection. Not first american or european to study idea of race. Practice of craniometry: practice of measuring skulls, taking measurements. Most interested feature for them was the size for racial scientists, actual volume of the cranium (cranial capacity) He believed that physical size of skull meant that person had physically large brain inside. Meant that in turn, idea was physically larger brain was associated with larger brain. Person with large head had a larger intellectual capacity. Idea that lasts in 20th and 21st century popular culture. Aliens from twilight zone, star trek, outer limits with large head and cranial features seen as massively intelligent. Over-sized brains & hyper intelligence in pop culture (pinky and the brain, the. Morton believed in 5 racial categories: caucasian, mongolian, malay, american (indigenous in america, ethiopian. All about how skull measurements related to the idea of race.
