AN202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Carl Linnaeus, Ethiopian Americans
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What can anthropology tell us about social inequality: last topic we looked at how anthropologists understand biological variation, this topic examines the way people understand (and create) variation or differences. Social stratifications (class and caste) reviewish sexuality, sex, and gender. Historical views on human variation o organizing nature: skin colour is the most noticeable way humans vary so most systems were based on it ~1350. Bce egyptians were classifying people based on skin colour: 16th century sees exploration of new world. Early racial classification schemes o carl linnaeus:
