ANT-2215 Lecture 2: American Polygeny and Craniometry Before Darwin
Document Summary
Blacks and indians as separate, inferior species : organizing the world, categorizing things, hieracrchies, great chain of being. Page 66-67: linnaeus, george cuvier, charles lyell, charles darwin. Wrote about a future where there was no separation. Monogenesis and polygenesis: monogenesis: upheld the scriptural unity of all peoples in the single creation of adam and eve. Human races are a product of degerenation from evens perfection. Climate proves most popular as a cause for racial distinction: polygenesis: a more hardline argument that abandons scripture and says that human races are separate biological species and descendants from different adams. As separate forms of life, nonwhites do not have the same rights of man fashioned during the french revolution. Some foods we cannot eat: what is a gift, an object or an action that someone of privilege gives to someone else. Since we have now elevated them we expect them to do the same for someone else.
