[ANTH 0680] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (78 pages long!)
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The study of man began as studying the other : if you are white european male, everyone else is the other . Try to see the differences you see on the surface and see if you could find differences in the bones. Pieter camper: 18th century dutch, facial angles. Represent a shortening of the face and snout from something like a long monkey snout to the flat face of white europeans. Some people saw different relationships between white people and monkeys and black people. Johann friedrich blumenbach: father of human anthropology, soul voice in arguing against the idea that races had different adam and eves, argued that all humans are the same species, pointed out features that everyone shares. Paleoanthropology: all walk on two legs, erect posture, head is balanced on top of a vertical column, rotation is placed under the skull, ball shaped pelvis, small anterior teeth.
