Anthropology 2229F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Patrilineality, Unilineality, Indian Knoll
23 Mar 2018
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Social organization refers to the rules and structures that govern relationships between individuals within a group of interacting people. Which one of your identity is operating depends on the situation. Residential groups appear in the archaeological record as households and villages. Nonresidential groups may be abstract and never actually convene. These are found in archaeological record through use of symbols, ceremonies, mythologies or insignias of membership that appear as particular styles of material culture such as ceramics, architecture, rock art or burials. Political organization is the formal and informal institutions that regulate a society"s collective acts. E. g. where only nuclear families that come together, or competing chiefdoms etc. Sometimes hard to tell if objects have symbolic meaning on top of functional. Sex: only two - male or female. Gender roles refers to differential participation of males and females is various social, economic, political, and religious institutions of a group.
