ANP 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ethnography, Archaeoastronomy, Sherd
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Chapter 12 vocab (book: enculturated: to become a member of a culture, to learn the rules by which a society operates, and to follow them is to become enculturated. Children are born into a culture that is, after all, a set of learned behaviors. Potsherds: fragment of pottery from a broken pot. Most ceramic artifacts are, in fact, potsherds, sometimes simply called sherds: rank societies: a society in which there are a number of sociopolitical levels, or ranks. These ranks do not confer economic power but do provide different levels of status or prestige. Stratified: these are societies characterized by social- economic- political- classes, or castes, into which people are born and, ordinarily, within which they and their descendants remain. These layered societies, with noble classes, merchant classes, workers, and peasants, characterize complex societies: complex societies: society in which authority, coordination of activity, and control of behavior are organized at a level beyond that of the family.
