HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Red Power Movement, Kennewick Man, Australoid Race

• School: York University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1010
• Professor: Irmgard Steinisch

Document Summary

Week 2: kennewick man and ethics central message of week 2 lecture. This lecture introduces students to the history of the academic disciplines of anthropology and archaeology, and the ethics of studying indigenous history. The lecture also looks at how indigenous peoples resisted the stereotypes imposed on them by scholarship and fought to take ownership of their histories and cultural heritages. Man reveals the ongoing tensions between university-based scholars and indigenous peoples today over the study of their history in the context of governmental legislation to enforce ethics in research. We encourage students to consider how these tensions affect our understanding of the history of ancient north america. Blumenbach"s five races (which became seven) charles darwin, origin of species skulls were studied as a means to scientifically study a race, thus starting cultural racism and cultural hierarchy. Blumenbach drew five human skulls which he believed were the five human races, caucasian race, monogenoid race, malay race, negroid race, and.