ANTHROP 1AB3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Francis Galton, Stephen Jay Gould, Peggy Mcintosh

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AB3
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

Identity: how you perceive yourself as an individual and as a collective member of society, we all have a variety of identities: gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), national identity, and so on . Race refers to : the presumed hereditary characteristics of a group of people, a culturally constructed identity, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=vnfkgffcz7u. Race: we think of race as an ascribed status, but, race is a cultural concept, not a biological one, and therefore, it is important for us to study as anthropologists. How did/do people try to link biology and race : classification for subspecies, humans divisible into discrete populations or categories, but, humans are complex and these categories themselves are not real. Race in antiquity: egyptians, classified based on skin colour, greeks believed all non-greeks were barbarians. Race, place, and face: classification of the natural world, 17th-18th cent, human biology tied to geography, european contact with far away populations, observable differences basis for classification.