ANT 131 Study Guide - Final Guide: Junk Food, Biomedicine, Christian Symbolism
Document Summary
Tendency to exhibit bias in favor of one"s own group, universal. Favored in evolution promoted ability to detect social alliances and cooperate in small/vulnerable social groups. 1968 experiment by jane elliot discrimination taught to 8 yr. olds. Showed that in-groups and out-groups, behavioral stereotypes are established quickly and on the basis of barely noticeable physical traits (ex = eye color) Traits (physical ones) like skin, eye, hair color can be socially constructed (religiously: these racial categories are institutional only because society makes it so. Ancient egyptians classified based on skin color (red, yellow, white, black) 18th/19th centuries: european/american scientists described/classified human variation th century. 4 categories with assigned behavioral/intellectual properties: labeled dark-skinned africans with worst description (fit euro-ethnocentric views) Immanuel kant (1724 1804) first to define race as fixed entity. Believed all humans sprang from single origin and that diversity (skin color) was due to environment.
