ANTH 0538 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Representational State Transfer, Tlatilco, Grave Goods
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Beautification of death cont: 3) minimize people/s exposure to death spatially segregated, reducing the social impact of death rise of funeral homes and age-grading (elderly in homes and hospitals) Funeral reifies the social networks of the living. The dead look restful , peaceful, serene, surrounded by flowers, quiet, etc. Tlatilco (1100-700 bc: made up of kin groups/houses. Dead were buried below or near the houses. Lots of variability in grave goods; doesn"t correspond to achieved/ascribed patterns: joyce (2001) created female burial biographies. Avoids abstract, academic language and instead focuses on emotion and subjectivity. Neutral language only in footnotes significant differences in age early teens received simple treatment, few/no grave goods: girl/child status, had child burials. 2 late teens and 20s had the most elaborate treatment: nubile, marriageable, therefore the most important socially, marriage between the houses held together the community, so the death of young women left the largest tear in society.
