Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Railways Act 1921, Ainu Language
18 Jul 2012
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Community level organization: how different areas are arranged in a site, not just individual houses, degree of planning. More elaborate as society becomes more complex. More permanent as society becomes more complex. Layout a good reference point for social arrangement. Have to have central control to organize village. Centralized decision making hierarchy: social institutions. Status positions that were ranked, partly ascribed, but also partly achieved (had to prove yourself, but had to be born into the group) Civil chiefs in charge of organizing villages, activities, etc. No central planning before 1300 ad, shifts in layout starts after: houses oriented the same way, well planned areas, etc, very elaborate defensive works, must have had centralized decision making, grouping of structures. Organization through matrilineage (for the iroquois), houses made up lineages. Still need multiple lines of evidence to get an idea of social distinctions! Aztecs divided up capital into different neighbourhoods, called barrios, for different clans.
