Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Stratification
11 Dec 2015
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One state exercises control over other groups over a broad territory. Relative abundance of beef cuts in sacramento, california. Push against traditional gender roles, fight for equality in the workplace. Imposing present day gender in equalities on the past. Vary according to age, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. Mayan sites: maize and marine carnivores ritually important. Elite eating more ritual foods than non-elite. Men eating more ritual foods than women. Differences between lower class men and women less pronounced than between upper class men and women. Opened the door to study other overlooked groups. Holdovers from their african traditions that they brought with them. Appropriate age-related behaviour and roles are socially constructed. Childhood among the thule inuit (1200ad- european contact) Stone circles 80cm-2m in diameter, with adjacent storage areas containing red pebbles (meat?) Miniature tools occur in the same proportions as full size tools (harpoons, sewing tools)
