ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mississippian Culture, Social Status, Acculturation

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Max Friesen

Document Summary

Reconstructing social organization = arrangement between individuals and groups in human society that structure relationships and activities. Some major aspects include; 1) population size hard to reconstruct. Seems basic but is actually difficult due to the difficulty in understanding when a house was built and for what purpose, 2) age roles of children and the elderly. Hard to understand how build the artifacts and for what purpose (such as toys or children"s pot . ) The children pot can be inferred as a child learning pottery, and thus explains the smaller size, and less professional look, 3) gender. Major element structuring roles and responsibilities in all societies. / status hierarchies closely linked to the control of production and distribution of wealth and other resources. Houses can indicate the wealth of the family because of its size or status goods, or you can also study the mortuary patterning, 5) trade interregional interaction, no group of humans is ever isolated.