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Episode 88: Andrew S. Curran

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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The Idea of Human Categories and Classification

In categories and classification have been around since aristotle. But something changes in the eighteenth century when this is been used to classify humans. The first person to classify humans was actually francois bernier, who was a traveller to india. And then by the 17 fifties, this really will start taking off with Linnaeus coming up with much more trenchant categories.

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