Anthro and Race

Question 1

When did the first shipment of African slaves arrive in the States?

Answer 1

August 1619

One year before the mayflower

Question 2

What are most classifications based off of?

Answer 2

Anatomical, Phenotypic traits

Question 3

What is the biocultural approach and what type of view does it take?

Answer 3

This is a holistic view of human races.

It looks at both the biological, social and cultural dimensions of certain “races”

Question 4

What is the anthropological/ definition of race?

Answer 4

The geographic pattern of variation in some biological traits that distinguish different human populations

Question 5

When should the term race never be used to classify groups (3)?

Answer 5

• religious groups
• linguistic groups
• nationalities

Question 6

What is a morphological difference (definition) and an example?

Answer 6

• This is a difference what reflect underlying biological differences
• They are visible to the human eye
• eye or skin colour

Question 7

What is a biological difference (definition) and an example?

Answer 7

• They are differences that are not as easily seen.

e. g blood type

Question 8

What is polymorphic variation?

Answer 8

This is the diversity found within ONE population

Question 9

What is polytypic variation?

Answer 9

This is the diversity between certain types of races

Question 10

Does polytypic or polymorphic variation have greater variation?

Answer 10

Polymorphic variation has the greatest internal diversity.

Question 11

What is folk biology?

Answer 11

It’s the cognitive study of how people classify and reason about the organic world. Humans everywhere classify animals and plants into obvious species-like groups

Question 12

Definition of anthropology

Answer 12

It is the study of humankind in all times and places

Question 13

Biological Anthropology

Answer 13

The study of humans as biological organisms – based on the evolution of species

Question 14

Cultural Anthropology

Answer 14

The study of how variations in beliefs and behaviours of different human groups are learned and acquired as members of society.

Question 15

What is unilinear evolution? What are the levels?

Answer 15

This is the viewpoint that all human ways of life go through a similar sequence of development.

• Lower/middle/upper savagery
• lower/middle/upper barbarisms
• civilization

Question 16

Who is Lewis Henry Morgan

Answer 16

He proposed the unilinear evolution theory.

Question 17

Historical Particularism

Answer 17

Shows that all cultures are influenced by their history and environment

Question 18

Cultural relativism

Answer 18

The belief that each society should be understood in terms of its own cultural practices and values.

Question 19

Anthropometry

Answer 19

This is the study of human body measurements for the use in anthro classification and comparison.

Question 20

What is a cline?

Answer 20

These are quantitative gradients e.g skin colour.

Question 21

Coon et Al.

Answer 21

• Focused on the idea that people of the same race generally resemble each other.
• approx 30 difference races
• placed them in 6 larger racial stocks

Question 22

What are the 6 larger racial stocks?

Answer 22

1. Negroid
2. Mongoloid
3. White
4. Australoid
5. American Indian
6. Polynesian

Question 23

Boyd

Answer 23

-He defined race as a “population which differs significantly from another population in regard to the frequency of posed genes

Question 24

Montagu

Answer 24

• He argued that race was completely unsupported by biological facts
• Thought that race should be replaced with “ethnic group”