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4 Fields
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Cultural, Physical, Archaeology, Linguistics.
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Applied Anthropology
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Using Anthropology to solve problems.
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Race
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A cultural division of people based on color of skin, but not biology. What defines race differs from place to place.
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Ethnicity
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A group of people distinguished by cultural traits, not biological.
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Eugenics
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Racial purification. The idea that cultural & behavioral traits were passed down by parents. Breeding predominant races and castrating and sterilizing “inferior” races.
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Law of hypo-descent in US racial
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Assigning the lesser or inferior race to mixed-race children.
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Carlos Von Linnaeus &
Taxonomy
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Early Taxonomy of racial categories. Five categories: Africanus, Americanus, Asiaticus, Europeanus, and Monstrosus. By location and skin-color.
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