ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Sociocultural Evolution, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
19 Mar 2013
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The study of humanity across time and space. Early anthropology dominated by physical evolutionary perspective. Great deal of human diversity, this became a curious question to the public and a social policy question. People needed to make sense of the land and the inhabitants. There was a lot of cultural, political and social concerns with regards to non-whites and white inhabitants. Natural historians (biological diversity, geographical data, etc) Prior to the 1800"s = pre scientific era: how can racial and other factors be explained, the world was considered god"s creation, not a part of evolition, science and religion weren"t different identities at the time. After the acceptance of science the questions of human diversity became a more scienfitic endeavour. Anthropometric studies: great age of classification, classifying by characteristics. He thought that the dominant society should help bring them up to their level, and solve the problem of their primitiveness mixing the two populations.
