Social Organization - Answers --rules and structures that govern relationships within a
group of interacting people
residential groups appear in the archaeological record as - Answers -households and
villages
Nonresidential groups are manifested archaeologically through the use of - Answers -
Symbols, ceremonies, mythologies, or insignias of membership
Political organization - Answers --the formal and informal institutions that regulate a
society collective acts.
-Control may be at level of residential or nonresidential level
Four broad areas of human social and political behavior: - Answers -gender, kinship,
social status, and trade
From artifacts to symbols - Answers --information about social and political organization
is derived from artifacts
-Artifacts are not just "things" but symbols
-How an artifact enters the archeological record is often a project of what it means
people manipulate material culture to send culturally specific symbolic messages -
Answers -ex: bringing flowers to dinner as a way to thank a host is a culturally-specific
standard American way to socially interact; Mikea, the forager-horticulturalists, expect
guests to bring tabacco
some societies recognize men who live as women or women who live as men as a -
Answers -third gender
in some plains Indian tribes, berdaches were - Answers -men who chose to live as a
women performing women roles
Androcentric - Answers -a perspective that focuses on what men do in a society, to the
exclusion of women
examples of androcentric - Answers --hunting weaponry assumed to be always male,
plant collecting gear always female
-burials with atlals in the indian knoll site
, The BaMbuti - Answers --live in the Ituri Forest of Central Africa and are hunter
gatherers
-nearly all exchange meat for agricultural produce with their neighbors the
Bantu(horticulturalists)
-Two kind of BaMbuti societies differ in hunting technology
Reconstructing male and female activities from archaeology - Answers --for decades
the field was male-dominated
-half of all professional archaeologists in the US today are women
ceramics made by hand were - Answers -women
ceramics made by wheel were - Answers -men
The Maya remarkable art style was often depicted on (6 things) - Answers -stone stelae,
polychrome, pottery, paintings, carvings, and codices
Gender in Maya Iconography - Answers --images commonly depict Maya wearing
intricate costumes
-Women are often portrayed weaving, preparing maize and serving food to others
-displays women wearing three distinctive dress styles
Cargo System - Answers --A system where a responsible married man is selected to
direct the ceremonial system
-Wife takes the title of "mother of" the mans named position
-men and women occupy complementary roles during the feasts of the cargo system
-women shown on stelae are partners in marriage between royal families
Kinship - Answers --relationships through which indivi are related to one another by ties
of descent(real or imagined) and marriage
-Kin groupings condition the nature of relationships between indivi
A kinship system blends - Answers -biological descent with cultural rules that define
some people as close kin and others as distant kin
Bilateral Descent - Answers --The standard kinship in North America, as well as many
other industrialized nations
- indivi traces his/hers relatives equally on mothers and fathers sides
-the nuclear family is the important economic unit
Patrilineal Descent - Answers --nuclear family may constitute the residential unit
-most important is the people who are related through the male line or patrilineage
-make up about 60% of the worlds known societies
-associated with foragers, agricultural and pastoral societies and internal warfare
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