Craniometry Essays

RAmen One time in my Humanities 1 class, we were talking about a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez entitled, “The Handsomest Drowned Man”. In here, the drowned man who was found by some villagers thought of how he lived, despite his enormous physique, as a generous person who always considers the comforts of other people. The villagers then named the drowned man “Esteban” who now became the center of the villagers’ lives, especially for the women. This is primarily because of Esteban’s physical

The Women’s Brains essay was first published in Natural History in 1980 by Stephen Jay Gould, a geology and zoology professor at Harvard University. In this essay, Paul Broca, a respectable and influential professor of clinical surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, concluded from his research on brain sizes that women “could not equal them [men] in intelligence”. Despite the prevalent acceptance of this conclusion in the nineteenth century, Gould refused to concede and argued against Broca’s

as bed, chairs, tables etc. are according to body measurements. Anthropometry is further divided into somatometry and osteometry. Somatometry includes somatoscopic observations while osteometry deals with measurements of bones and also includes craniometry. Forensic anthropometry deals with the application of techniques and methods of anthropometry in medico-legal cases. First work in the field of anthropometry has been done by Alphonse Bertillon in 1883. He also started ‘portrait parle’. Bertillon

be completed by the environment at some point thus insinuating that their actions were justified and that they were merely “helping” a process that would occur anyway and they should not stand in its way. The ideas of Samuel Morton, who wrote on Craniometry, come through in

In Ecological Imperialism, Alfred Crosby discusses how European species impacted the indigenous flora and fauna of regions settled by European settlers. The most drastic changes were experienced by North America and Australia. Species such as horses, cattle, and pigs had a prodigious effect not only on the ecosystems they spread to, but upon the livelihoods of indigenous populations. Weeds, fruit-trees, and of course various cash crops would find a home in both continents. Domesticated European animals

regarding the Jews and how discrimination increased in the form of the Nuremberg Laws , Kristallnacht, and last but not least, The Final Solution. Spanning throughout the 19th century, racial theories were seen. Pseudo-Scientific theories such as Craniometry,where the size of one’s skull determines one’s characteristics or could justifies one’s race( this theory was used first by Peter Camper and then Samuel Morton), Karl Vogt’s theory of the Negro race being related to apes and of how Caucasian race

Introduction As we discussed in class, early European naturalists and explorers has a great influence in changing the European views of the world and humans place ion nature (Lewin Chapter 1); the History Colorado Center Museum has an exhibit on Race, which features some of the discussions we had in class on our place in nature. The taxonomic classification of primates, especially the anthropomorpha of Linnaeus illustrations, paved a way for the Linnaean taxonomic classification of human, which was