ANTH 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Gender Role, Maya Maize God, Nondestructive Testing
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Chapter 11: reconstructing social and political systems of the past. Social organization refers to the rules and structures that govern relationships between individuals within a group of interacting people. These relationships are never simple because people belong to groups on many different levels; some of these crosscut one another, and others are hierarchically organized. Some social groups are residential, consisting of domestic families or households, territorial bands, or community-level villages. Residential groups tend to be physical, face-to-face associations of people. Residential groups appear in the archaeological record as households and villages. Nonresidential groups are usually manifested archaeologically through the use of symbols, ceremonies, mythologies, or insignias of membership that appear as particular styles of say, ceramics, architecture, rock art, or burials. Although the residential group regulates discrete spatial matters, the nonresidential group binds these territorial units together. political organization the formal and informal institutions that regulate a society"s collective acts.
