ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Socalled, Chauvinism, Eyelid
10 Feb 2014
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Harris chapter 13 - ethnicity, race and racism. Ethnic group: is a group that has been incorporated into a state through conquest or migration, that maintains distinctive cultural and/or linguistic traditions and that has a sense of a separate, shared and age-old identify. Biological races: are etic populations in which several genes occur together with distinctive frequencies over many generations. Social races: are assumed to have a biological basis but are in fact culturally constructed. Social race is an emic construct that can be used politically to justify prejudice and stratification. Racism: is the belief that the cultural and intellectual characteristics of a population are linked to its biological racial character, with the notion that some races inherently superior to others. Racialism: is a relatively benign form of making racial distinctions, such as skin color and facial characteristics, intended for reference purposes.
