ANTHRO 3AC Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Anthropology, Slavery, Scientific Racism
20 Nov 2018
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Conquest: socio-cultural anthropology, the discipline of anthropology > the late 19th century, an anthropological sense > earlier with the european colonial conquests, anthropologists study the conditions and consequences of human diversity. Socio-cultural anthropology studies diversity as a problem of differences. Successes. failures and hypocrisies: historically, main solutions to the problem of difference: (1) the annihilation of difference. Columbus sees indians as proto christian (even better christians) Treats women as men for the purposes of granting maternity leave. By treating pregnancy as a disability that any worker might suffer for the purpose of leave. Conceived as a disability to achieve equality. Minority=women (2) the acceptance of difference with institutionalized inequality. Part of almost every organization (3) the acceptance of difference with institutionalized equality. The principle of political equality in athens (isonomia) All male athenian citizens could no longer lose citizenship equal right of all citizens (led to reform) Ex: liberal us solution (hyphenated american)=one political citizenship and another cultural identity.
