U69 Anthro 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Joya De Cerén, Gordon Willey, Viru Valley
Document Summary
Society and ideology - a maya heavy lecture: what are the basic components of a culture, social systems - the way human societies organize themselves. Ideological systems - how people perceive the environment should be. Beliefs that human societies have to understand and deal with their own existence (religion, politics, traditions: social systems, the means by which societies organize themselves and interactions with other societies. Kinship-family organization: most basic of social systems - organization of families, has deepest roots - since dawn of human existence. Political organization: formal and informal institutions created to regulate how we live. Patrilineal society - trace lineage from male line. Practicing patrilocal residences - woman moves in with man at marriage. Once we have kinship, we can then have settlements: gender archaeology - discussed next week, settlement archaeology, study of the spatial distribution of ancient human activities and occupation.
