59 courses in the 1975–76 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Associate Professor.
TS. Abler, B.A (Northwestern), M.S.(Wisconsin- Milwaukee), Ph.D.(Toronto)
Wm.B. Roosa, B.A (Texas Christian), M.A.(New Mexico), Ph.D.(Michigan)
S.M. Weaver,’ B.A., M.A., Ph.D.(Toronto)
Assistant Professors
D.E. Counts, B.§.(S.W. Texas State College), M.A. (Kentucky), Ph.D (Southern Ulinois)
C.E. De’Ath,? B.A.(Aukland), ASOPA Cert.(Sydney), MEd., Ph.D.(Pittsburgh)
M.H. Hill, B.A (Washington), M.A(Washington State), Ph.D(Southern Illinois)
S. Gabow, B.A (California — Berkeley), Ph.D. (Toronto)
J. Rogers, B.A.(Radcliffe), M.A.(.New Mexico), Ph.D. (Toronto)
J.G.E. Smith, PA.B., M.A., Ph.D (Chicago)
Faculty members holding cross appointments as shown.
1 Anthropology and Urban Regional Planning
* Anthropology and Man-Environment Studies
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Note 1 : Anthropology degree requirements are currently under revision, Students are strongly advised to consult the department before planning a programme in order that they may take the new requirements into account.
Note 2
Many of the listed courses are given irregularly. Students should consult the course offerings list issued at preregistration. 4
An introductory course in Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. Lectures on living and fossil primates, the fossil primates, the fossil evidence for the origins and development of man, modern races, and archaeological evidence for the origins and development of culture.
3 hours lecture, Fall term
An introductory course on the nature of culture, Data is presented on several primitive cultures. 3 hours lecutre, Winter term
A general introduction to the scientific study of language. Lectures on the nature of human language as compared with animal communication, some of the basic methods of historical and descriptive linguistics, and the importance of language in culture and society.
An introduction to the working assumptions analytic approaches and integrative and descriptive methods of archaeological anthropology.
Offered annually
3 hours lecture
Recommended to Honours Anthropology students
No prerequisite
An introduction to basic concepts used by social anthropologists for the analysis of social, economic, political and ideational systems.
Offered annually
3 hours lecture
Recommended to Honours Anthropology Students Prerequisite: 102* or permission of instructor
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An introduction to the study of the.beliefs and practices of primitive peoples about the world of nature and of man. The course wil} deal with the religious and related systems of selected primitive peoples. Readings will reflect these accounts in the ethnographic literature.
Prerequisites: 102 or permission of instructor
This course deals with the earliest known cultures in North America (mostly prior to 1000 B.C.).
3 hours lecture
No prerequisites
Not acceptable for Honours Credit
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A survey of the development of culture, from the beginnings of tool making to the transition to agriculture, Primary attention to sequences from Africa, Western Asia, and Europe. Comparative attention to the nonagriculture peoples of recent times. Prerequisites: 101 or permission of the instructor
3 hours lecture
Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology credit
Examination of the transition to an economy based on food production, the spread of food producing economics, the rise of civilization in the Near East to the early literate periods. Consideration of later prehistoric developments in Africa, Asia and Europe. Prerequisites: 101 or permission of the instructor
3 hours lecture
Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology Credit
The origins and development of food-producing cultures in the American Southwest.
3 hours lecture
No prerequisites
Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology Credit
A Survey of the cultures in the Great Lakes area, with emphasis on the period from ca. 1000 B.C. to 1500 ALD.
3 hours lecture
No prerequisite
Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology credit
Course Descriptions 457 Sociology and Anthropology
A survey of the cultures and societies of the sub- Saharan Africa. An emphasis will be placed upon the ethnographic present.
Prerequisite: 102 or permission of the instructor
A comparative ethnological survey of selected indigenous societies in the Pacific region.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: [02 or permission of the instructor
An examination of cultural developments in Western Africa, focusing on the Sahel, Savannah, and Forest Zones.
A study of Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic world art, aspects of Bronze Age Europe, Asia and the
Near East, the art of the African continent, the North and South American Indians in pre-Columbian and colonial times, and Australian-Oceania, together with related fields such as folk art, native and child art.
3 hours lecture
Eskimo cultures of Alaska, Canada and Greenland from the time of European and Asian contact to the present. Administrative systems imposed on the Eskimo will be analysed and compared, as will the contemporary problems these communities face today. 2 hours lecture
Prerequisites: 102 or permission of the instructor
A survey of the cultures of the native peoples of Canada and the United States at the time of contact with European Civilization. Emphasis will be placed upon such aspects as cultural ecology, tribal sociopolitical organization and nativistic reactions to Europeans.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: Anthropology 102 or permission of the instructor
East Asia
This course analyses the traditional social structure as well as changes in social, economic and cultural spheres in selected Asian countries. Historical perspective will be emphasized. Current topics such as land reform, the consequent changes, or changing values in the traditional! societies will also be dis- ” cussed.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Sociology 101* or Anthropology 101*, 102*
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A survey of Caribbean society in which particular attention will be devoted to an analysis of the historical, cultural and socioeconomic background of selected representative Caribbean societies, within the general framework of the continuing process of acculturation in this area.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: Anthropology 102* or permission of the instructor
A survey of the adaptation of the Canadian Indian to Euro-Canadian society. The development of the Indian Act and Indian administration and policy will be explored and compared with parallel developments in the United States.
3 hours lecture, Fall term
Prerequisites: Anthropology 102* or permission of the instructor
An analysis of present-day Canadian Indian politics, economics, social organization and education. The emergence of pan-Indianism and large-scale Indian organizations will be examined as responses to the federal governments policy of withdrawing and decentralizing administrative services for native people. 3 hours lecture, Winter term
Prerequisites: Anthropology 240* or permission of the instructor
Approaches to the study of urban centres as undertaken by anthropologists. Selected topics such as urban social networks, the urbanization of nonwestern societies, and the culture of poverty will be pursued.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: 102* or permission of the instructor
A survey course with data taken from Latin America, Europe, India, Southeast Asia. Included will be a consideration of different types of peasant societies, the relationship of peasants to urban.areas, and the effects of modernization on peasant society.
3 hours lecture
Data, methods and theory in the study of the origin ‘and evolution of man. Emphasis will be on the fossil evidence.
3 hours lecture plus lab
Prerequisites: 101 or permission of the instructor
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An introduction to the behaviour of non-human primates with emphasis on the relevance to the origin of man.
3 hours lecture
An introduction to the study of the non-human pri-
‘mates. Topics discussed will include comparative
anatomy, genetics and physiology of the living primates as well as the fossil evidence for F primate evolution.
Devising adequate writing systems for unwritten languages. The class will simulate field sessions, with an informant who speaks an unfamiliar language.
3 hours lecture
A general introduction to structural linguistics. A survey of linguistic approaches to the analysis and description of language.
3 hours lecture
A continuation of Anthropology 285*.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Anthropology 285*
An analysis of Northern Athabaskan and Algonkian social organization and culture from earliest European contact, the fur trade periods to the period of modern, concentrated village life. Emphasis will be upon culture change and adaptation in a theoretical framework of cultural ecology and historical development. 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: 102*, 234 or permission of the instructor
This course deals with the earliest known cultures in North America (mostly prior to 1000 B.C.).
3 hours lecture and tutorial
Permission of Instructor
Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
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Detailed considerations of prehistoric cultural developments from earliest toolmaking to the transition to agriculture, An examination of the human mode of adaptation and the increasing complexity of cultural systems among prehistoric hunters and gatherers. . 3 hours lecture and tutorial
Primarily for Honours Anthropology students Offered 1975-76 and alternate years -
Prerequisite: Anthropology 201* or permission of instructor
Cultural development from the agricultural revolution to the rise of literacy. Special attention to the development of agriculture as a means of subsistence and to the rise of early civilization in the Near East.
3 hours lecture and tutorial
Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
Offered every other year
Prerequisite: Anthropology 201* or permission of instructor
The origins and development of food-producing cultures in the American Southwest.
3 hours lecture and tutorial
Permission of instructor
Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
A survey of the cultures in the Great Lakes area, with emphasis on the period from ca. 1000 B.C. to 1500 AD.
3 hours lecture and tutorial
Permission of instructor
Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
This course will study the inter-relations between societies and their environments. It will cover both the cultural relations to the natural surroundings and community organization.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: 101* and 102* or permission of instructor
The nature of planned programs and their implications for the communities involved are examined through ethnological studies of small communities in Canada and abroad. Reasons for the success or failure of programs of change are sought in relation to community structure.
Course Descriptions 459 Sociology and Anthropology
A study gf culture contact and the cultural changes that result, pursued through a study of representative non-European peoples in different parts of the world including their indegenous cultures and the problems of adapting themselves to the modern world.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Anthropology 101*, 102* or permission of the instructor
345, 346, 347; 348, 349 Special problems in Anthropology .
Lecture or seminar in special problems in anthropology. Topics may include problems in archaeology, physical anthropology, linguistics, social / cultural anthropology and will vary by term and instructor.
A comparison of the roles of men and women as they are treated in the literature of anthropology. In addition, differences between male and female anthropologists in their functions as field workers, and their status in the discipline are considered.
Offered 1974-75 and alternate years
Prerequisite: consent of the instructor
A survey of representative plural societies of the world, including an analysis of the historical background and genesis of ethnic and cultural pluralism in these societies. An attempt will be made to establish the relevance of the concept of plural society for some national societies not usually recognized as such on the basis of the nature of some of their major continuing international social problems. Considerable attention will also be given to race and ethnicity and the major role these two factors play in plural societies.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: Anthropology 101*, 102* or permission of the instructor
A discussion of the alternative means of organizing economic activity, focused primarily on non-market societies.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: 102 or permission of the instructor
The study of political behaviour in both state and non-state society. A comparative approach will be | used with a thorough examination of the political systems of selected societies.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: 102 or permission of instructor
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’ 360* Genetics and Variability in Human Populations
Study of variation and its causes in contemporary human populations.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: 260* or permission of instructor
Analysis of the relationship between behaviour and natural selection in human evolution. Attention will be paid to theory as well as data from fossil evidence and other sources.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: 260* or permission of instructor
Problems in cultural dynamics will be considered as exemplified in the rise and effects of the civilizations of Meso and South America. Data is provided primarily by the archaeological record.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: 101* or permission of the instructor
Traditional and recently developed apporaches to ethnographic field work are explored. The problems the worker faces in the field, and possible solutions to them, are discussed. Some effort will be made to develop field technique in simulated and/or real field situations.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: 102* or permission of the instructor
Data gathering techniques will be studied and applied in field work on both constructed and natural archaeological sites.
3 hours lecture
Offered occasional summer sessions only Prerequisites: 101* or permission of instructor
Methods of gathering, processing and interpreting archaeological data will be studied. Limited exca- . vations will be followed by laboratory analysis of collected materials.
4 hours lecture, plus lab
Prerequisite: 101* or permission of instructor. This course will ordinarily be offered in Fall terms. Students cannot receive credit for both 371 and 372*
_ Course Descriptions
Sociology and Anthropology
The importance of language in culture. Language is examined as a vehicle of culture (a linguistic code as a device for communication), as a mirror for culture (lexical and semantic aspects), and as a tool of society (uses and functions of language). INustration will be from a variety of languages.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: At least one previous half-course in linguistics and one in cultural] social anthropology
A linguistic approach to the study of meanings expressed in the grammatical systems and Jexical sets of particular languages.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: Anthropology 283* or 285*
The technical and ethical aspects of directed culture change will be examined.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: 370* or permission of the instructor
390, 391*, 392, 393%, 395* 397* Reading in Anthropology.
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prerequisites: Anthropology major and permission of the instructor
Seminar in the literature of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Intensive reading and discussion of classic studies in ethnography.
Prerequisites: 102* or permission of the instructor
_ An analysis of contemporary thought on culture
contact and cultural evolution. The concepts to be explored might include integration, assimilation, conflict, nativistic reactions, general and specific evolution.
Seminar . Prerequisites: Anthropology 102* or permission of the instructor
Seminar on selected contemporary issues in anthropology. Open only to Honours Anthropology students.
A survey of the history of cultural theory from 1850 to 1940.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: Anthropology 101*, 102*.
A survey of cultural theory from post World War II to the present.
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: Anthropology 101*, 102*
A seminar on selected topics in archaeological theory. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102* and an additional half course in archaeology or permission of the’ instructor
An examination of selected topics of current research interest in physical anthropology. Students will be encouraged to undertake guided research projects. Seminar
Prerequisites: Anthropology 260*, 360* and permission of the instructor
Different theoretical approaches — stratificational, transformational and signals grammar, one approach to be emphasized during each offering.
Seminar
Prerequisites: Anthropology 285 or English 375
Directed reading and research in a selected area of anthropological inquiry.
Open only to Honours Anthropology students
Course Descriptions
Soctology and Anthropology
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