ANTH 0538 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Embalming, Formal Wear, Upper Middle Class
Document Summary
Tlajinga 33: 1/3 immigrants from up to 5 different areas. Oaxaca barrio: 80% of burial populations were immigrants or had spent part of their childhood elsewhere, continued interation with homeland of oaxaca. Women often moved across mesoamerica with their children. Women maintained this link to their homeland/ethnic history. Merchant"s barrio: upper middle class neighborhood, recreated gulf coast style homes. Maintained cuisine as well (no tortillas: sample of 29 bodies so far, about 67% were immigrants, mostly long term. All but one of the immigrants were men who then married local women. The women had to assimilate into their husband"s culture. The men brought and maintained their homeland ethnic traditions. Gendering and assimilation patterns were different from. Teopancazco: skeletons from public spaces and burial grounds, upper-class, elite. 2: about 50% were locals, the rest were from all over mesoamerica. Teo bone isotope summary: huge, multi-ehtnic pilgrimage center. The pyramids drew many immigrants: reveals surprising amount of prehispanic movement and migration.
