Amerindians, Europeans, Makiritare, Mestizos, Puerto Rican, and Quechua: Categorical Heterogeneity in Latin American Human Biology
| Autor: | Santiago J. Molina |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
060101 anthropology
Multidisciplinary Latin Americans Anthropology 05 social sciences Ethnic group 06 humanities and the arts Human genetic variation 050905 science studies Social constructionism Variety (linguistics) Epistemology Agnosticism History and Philosophy of Science Human biology 0601 history and archaeology Sociology 0509 other social sciences Categorical variable |
| Zdroj: | Perspectives on Science. 25:655-679 |
| ISSN: | 1530-9274 1063-6145 |
| Popis: | The process by which scientists adopt and use socially constructed categories to classify their human subjects is complex. Scientists have used a wide variety of seemingly incongruous racial, ethnic, geographic, linguistic and national categories in their studies of human biological variation. This article details the epistemic rationale behind the system of classification found in mid-twentieth century human biology. The populationist rationale, I argue, entails agnosticism towards the reality of categories and supported the use of flexible standards around sampling and labeling. Looking closely at the categories used in projects in Latin America illustrates how the distinction between “primitive” and “industrialized” structured the classification system used by researchers to render populations productive. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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