Archaeology ARC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Hair Color, Personal Identity, Eye Color
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To identify=to recognize or establish someone or something as beign a particular person or thing. Influences many (all?) aspects of performed identity: cults all wearing same color to show that they are in group, sorting our own society into manageable understandings of who people are. Identity politics: groups battling for what"s right what"s okay, what isn"t okay. In a democratic society, should be decided by people which is why there are so many intergroup clashes: personal identity tied and linked to group identity, two-way street each influences the other. Identity and living in a group: one"s identity affects their lived experiences. Group identities can shape how people live: behavior, health, associated materials, archaeology and identity, by studying how people experienced life in the past, we can begin to reconstruct changing social and group identities. Burial and identity in medieval central asia and coastal peru dr. Identity can be written on the body and captured in burial practices.
