ANTH 1010H Lecture Notes - Asthma, Kennewick Man, Anthro (Comics)
3 Sep 2013
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Cultural heritage: archaeologists as stewards, who owns the past, who decides how the past is displayed/discussed. Renaissance and the genesis of the race concept. Renaissance is characterised by the development of large ocean going ships. Prior to this, people travelled overland great distances and could observe gradual changes in appearance: latitudinal changes in skin colour were noted prior to renaissance, but not attributed to races" but rather geography. Colonizers had no sense of diversity that existed within colonized populations. People were grouped together based on physical similarity: regardless of differences in culture, religion, political organization, these categories became pervasive and led to the construction of racial categories. These racial categories were then linked to so-called fundamental, innate biological differences in: Early 19th century scientists focused on proving the validity of these biological differences. Measuring differences in cranial capacity, for example. Post wwii (1945) questions about the biological validity of this concept. Concept of race had no biological validity.
