ANTH 2303 Lecture 25: 11-30-2016 Craft Specialization and Gender
7 Feb 2017
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Differentiating craft workshops from domestic facilities: domestic facilities have the following characteristics: Lots of artifacts types but few of each type. Lots of artifact diversity but few types of each. Differentiating craft workshops from domestic facilities: craft workshops have: A limited number of these distinctive structures relative to typical domestic structures. Few artifact types but lots of each type. Artifacts indicative of a limited age range. The correlation of craft specialization and stratification. The type of craft specialization varies by the degree of stratification in a society. A market economy characteristic of a state wwill be different than the economy of a chiefdom. In a state craft materials should be available through the market. That is not the case in a chiefdom. The effect of social stratification on gender in crafting: gender assignment in crafting will vary according to degree of stratification, there are two types of production, domestic mode of production.
