ANTH 3020 Quiz: ANTH 3020 Exam Review #1
21 Apr 2016
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Dark skin may be associated with frizzy or kinky hair or curly or wavy or straight hair, all of which are found among different indigenous peoples in tropical regions. Differences among the racial categories were projected to their greatest extreme when the argument was posed that. Africans, indians and europeans were separate species, with africans the least human and closer taxonomically to apes: civilized. They are capable of articulation and rational thinking: barbarian. The term derives from greeks" identification of other languages as sounding like bar-bar-bar-bar, therefore barbarian means bar-bar speakers; Those who lay beyond the lands of the known barbarians. Described in shakespeare"s writing as referring to men whose heads grow beneath their shoulders" or people with one eye in the middle of their foreheads, upside down walkers: faithful. Those who are not baptized in the christian faith, nonetheless they are thought to be descended from rational mortal" creatures. Hence, they are capable of salvation (this category included muslims,
