ANTH 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kaleidoscope, Enculturation, Ethnocentrism
20 Aug 2018
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English colonists who began settlements in the seventeenth century: western ideology of race has spread around the world through the influence of missionaries, businesspeople, military, and other institutions. Race as a modern idea: race is a relatively recent concept in human history, racial worldview starts with the colonial expansion of certain western european nations during the past centuries. Ideas should not be viewed as prime movers of the cultural process. Ideas are necessary aspects of culture that may vary in strength and form expression over time and space. Once established and conventionalized, they become enthroned in individuals as mind-sets. They can achieve the state of involuntary cognitive processes: race is such a worldview. The racial worldview holds that groups are by nature unequal and can be ranked along a gradient of superiority-inferiority. Even music is defined as black or white. Phenotypic markers have nothing to do with it.
