ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Franz Boas, Columbia University, Social Darwinism
21 May 2018
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Four Consequences of Global Climate Change
1. Increase in diseases old and new- Malaria, we try to control but it spreads, including like
continents like Africa. People die from it.
2. Extinction of life forms, Reduction of the planets biomass
3. More and more powerful superstorms (sandy 2012)
4. Rises of World’s oceans levels-
Biomass- refers to the total amount of life forms on this planet
Global climate change is inevitable. What choices do we have
1. Do nothing or begin to change now to avoid worse consequences later.
2. To ignore or help climate exiles
Wanting to have social acceptance
3 reasons for the rise of Anthropology end of 19THC
Becomes science to understand reasons why
1. As we moved into the 19th century it is believed by many people that this century will be
combine because of science and technology
2. Proverty and disease will end in the 19th century, all the thing we thought were possible were
never ended. They believed that they have a time machine called Unlineal evolution that would
help end it.
The Administration of the colonized- every colonial has an administration, these administrations
have to know how to train these people, they are doing anthropology, they are trying to figure
out what these people are like
At the end of the 19th century, this is the time of the building museums, these museums help
collect things around the world and anthropologist would be hired to collect things around the
world.
1 seek solutions to social problems in the west
2. Need to control the colonized other
3. Create/curate cultural exhibits in museums
Its critical phase in the history of American Anthropology
1.) Late 19th century and the move away from social Darwinism
Franz Boas- fighting against social darwinism, he is called today the father of anthropology, he
is a German geologist, he is into scientific careers. In 1883 Boas goes to the arctic, no one
knows what the arctic is like, scientist and explorers goes to explore it, theres no one that lives
there, besides the Inuit. He would give geology to study anthropology
The three contribution made by Franz Boas
1.) creation of the first post graduate at Columbia university in 1887
2.) emphasis on field work- you have to sleep with them, you have to do the things that they do.
3.) Anti-Social Darwinist- went against races
Review sheet 4 ( Anthropology becomes the science which deals with human origins and
diversity
Social darwinism has no scientific credibility
what are the three reasons why it is important to understand evolution ?
1.) Evolution is based on science
2.) Evolution REFUTES Social Darwinism
3.) Evolution is a good example of how TRUTH (values) is (are) culturally relative
How old is the Earth ?
6,000 years. (Religion)
Or
3-4 billion (Geology)
What new discovery in the 19th century in Geology help support evolution ? The age of the
planet
What is the foundation of Darwinian Biology
- That living organism are in a continuous set of change
Genetic Change: A Two stage process
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Four consequences of global climate change: increase in diseases old and new- malaria, we try to control but it spreads, including like continents like africa. People die from it: extinction of life forms, reduction of the planets biomass, more and more powerful superstorms (sandy 2012, rises of world s oceans levels- Biomass- refers to the total amount of life forms on this planet. What choices do we have: do nothing or begin to change now to avoid worse consequences later, to ignore or help climate exiles. 3 reasons for the rise of anthropology end of 19thc. They believed that they have a time machine called unlineal evolution that would help end it. The administration of the colonized- every colonial has an administration, these administrations have to know how to train these people, they are doing anthropology, they are trying to figure out what these people are like.
