ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Forensic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

Document Summary

Race: in science, is geographically circumscribed population or set of populations that differ from all other populations of a species. Racism in toronto and north america: newspapers, in our daily lives, we know our cultural designation, not ethnicity, we"re all african in origin, race is a dangerous aspect of our society. Caucasian bundle: pale skin, straight or wavy hair, nose of narrow to medium width, medium to tall stature. Black bundle: black or dark brown skin, wiry hair, thick noses and lips, medium stature. Skin colour adapatation skin colour is an exposure to ultra violet radiation don"t match up to geographically match up to uv light. Match up to high ul levels, melanin is a pigment that gives colour, if exposed t the sun it will give a tan colour. Physical traits we think of as clustering together among particular peoples often have much broader distributions. Skin pigmentation not congruent with countries or racial regions.