BIOTYPES & POPULATIONS
i. the people
franz boas
1858-1942
Ruth Benedict's and Margaret Mead's mentor. Dubbed as the 'father of modern American Anthropology'.
Culture relativism - each person sees the world through their own culture.
Rejects scientific racism. Each race's traits are malleable by the environmental factors i.e., health and nutrition.
margaret mead
1901-1978
A cultural anthropologist.
... popularized the insights of anthropology in modern American and Western culture. Detail how attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. It means that she challenged norms and traditional Western views, laying grounds for forward-thinking in sexual relations.
fact checked: mead and ruth weren't in a romantic relationship, ruth was in a relationship with mead's close friend. I misread.
ruth benedict
1887-1948
An American anthropologist and folklorist.
Her work shows influences from Franz Boas.
A transitional figure in her field.
Redirecting both anthropology and folklore away from the limited confines of culture-trait diffusion studies
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ii. the (new) idea
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Eugenicists didn't want to align themselves to the infamously brutal Final Solution by Nazi Germany so they revamped their thinking.
eugenics stripped of
hierarchy and rankings
Hardy - Weinberg Equilibrium principle shatters the belief of bad gene inheritance, which renders targeted interventions, e.g. sterilization
NONSENSE.
... so they "invented" a new argument
To further their agenda, the eugenicists involved world peace in their argument and promote the idea of population control. The eugenicists "forged relationships with organizations such as the Population Council, the Population Reference Bureau, and Planned Parenthood" (Stern, 175)
Some said that it should be viewed in a more positive light when compared to the archaic eugenic view.