ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pastoralism, Microsoft Onenote, Inuit
24 Nov 2018
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Foragers: hunting and gathering, mobile follow the food, come together in small settlement group, economic based on simple reciprocity(giving one thing, reciprocity getting another, food sources include: Includes number of evocative women images: collection of small figurines, made of clay, one figurines show women sit on a throne showing power, women preferentially shown, overtones of power (throne, some in rare materials (marble, mistress of animals, powerful goddess. Revolve around home, household activities, none were shown in paintings tho: burial practices/ grave goods, older women buried in northern part, buried with mirrors, razors, needles, beads and necklaces. (cosmetics/household, men buried with weaponry, craft items like spears, arrowheads, daggers, female dominated religion, clearly defined gender roles. Gender at catalhoyuk: suggest that gender wasn"t always the most important characteristic of person, more about age, kin groups, other aspects of identity more important, age/experience, kinship, gender can be explored in the past, scientific method permits re examination/re interpretation of.
