ANTH 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ashley Montagu, Franz Boas, Homo Sapiens
9 Feb 2018
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The new racism : contemporary approaches to the study of race . 2015 canadian government passes zero tolerance for barbaric cultural practices act. Amendment to criminalize child marriage to honor killings, etc. referred to as barbaric cultural practices. Critical response and backlash to act, racism within the act. Targeting muslim immigrants, even though it did not specifically say that. Wasn"t naming group or religion on surface referring to culture. How, via term culture, race comes into popular thinking and present day society. Says something about how culture may have been informed by older ideas of race. Reacting to field of racial science and ideas that it normalized about race, ways it impacted anthropology and ideas of culture in the world. Franz boas was highly vocal critic of racial science and race in general. Attempted to measure and sample different racial groups (jews and italians) in new york. Found too much variation, no physiological that were consistent across people he studied.
