Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Ascribed Status, Achieved Status, Nuclear Family

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2229F/G
• Professor: Christopher Ellis

Document Summary

All ideal the divisions of social systems are not necessarily completely true, Lecture 27 social forms and society variations within each. Ranked clans or lineages: status differences. Full-time or part-time: sexual division in division of labour. Particular concepts for what is appropriate for men and women. How the people might be organized: subsistence. Aspects of social systems in the archaeological record: 1. Reflect the social system that produced them. Community level: see the layout of the entire settlement, relationship between different activity areas, houses, etc. Distribution on the landscape: what is relationship between communities. Hunter-gatherer sites usually lack structures: very mobile societies, had structures that are hard to see in the record. When structures are preserved, can give a lot of information about social system: produced more than just living structures, specialized structures. Living/domestic structure: diverse assemblages/range of objects, wide range of debris. Iroquoian longhouses: cooking areas, sleeping areas, other evidence of domestic activity, frequency and redundancy.