63 courses in the 1976–77 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Associate Professor
T. S. Abler, B.A. (Northwestern), M.S. (Wisconsin- Milwaukee), Ph.D. (Toronto)
D. E. Counts, B.S. (S.W. Texas State College), M.A. (Kentucky), Ph.D. (Southern Illinois)
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
C. E. De’Ath?, B.A. (Aukland), ASOPA Cert. (Sydney), M.Ed., 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, Ph.B., M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago)
Faculty members holding cross appointments as shown 1 Anthropology and Urban Regional Planning 2 Anthropology and Man-Environment Studies
Course Descriptions 397 Sociology and Anthropology
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Note
Many of the listed courses are given irregularly. Students should consult the course offerings list issued at preregistration. —
An overview of 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.
The dynamic nature of socio-cultural systems is examined. Topics include language, technology, social organization, economics, politics, and religion. Data are drawn from a broad ethnographic base, including both ‘‘primitive’’ cultures and modern developed societies.
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 basic concepts used by social anthropologists for the analysis of social, economic, political and ideational systems.
Recommended to Honours Anthropology Students. Prerequisite: 102* or permission of instructor
An introduction to the study of the beliefs and practices of primitive peoples about the world of nature and of man. The course will 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
Not offered in 1976–77.
The manner in which varying degrees of violence are used in the settlement of dispute is explored. Discussed are the rules which control violent behaviour, the effects of violence on the societies and populations involved, and the adaptive (or maladaptive) aspects of such phenomena as feud and warfare. Data are drawn from a broad spectrum of societies.
Prerequisite: 102* or permission of the instructor
A general survey of the archaeological remains of the earliest known cultures in the Great Lakes area (mostly prior to 1000 B.C.).
Prerequisites: 101* or permission of the instructor.
Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology credit
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.
Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology credit
Not offered in 1976–77.
Not offered in 1976–77.
A survey of the cultures in the Great Lakes area, with emphasis on the period from ca. 1000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology credit
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.
Prerequisites: 102 or permission of the instructor
Not offered in 1976–77.
The society and culture of North American Indian hunters and gatherers (excluding big game hunters dependant upon the horse) is surveyed. The course concentrates on the adaptation exhibited by these peoples at the time they were first contacted by Europeans.
Prerequisite: 102* or permission of the instructor
Pastoral (big game hunting dependant upon the horse) and horticultural (farming) societies north of the high civilizations of Mexico are described as they existed when initially contacted by Europeans.
Prerequisite: 231* or permission of the instructor
Course Descriptions Sociology and Anthropology
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.
Prerequisite: 102 or permission of the instructor
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 discussed. ; Prerequisite: Sociology 101* or Anthropology 101*, 102*
Not offered in 1976–77.
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.
Prereq: Anthro. 102* or permission of instructor
Not offered in 1976–77.
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 Government’s policy of withdrawing and decentralizing administrative services for native people.
Prereq: Anthro. 240* or permission of instructor
Not offered in 1976–77.
An analytical survey of egalitarian societies, including hunting and foraging bands and agricultural pastoral chiefdoms and tribes. Topics include typology of bands, tribes, and chiefdoms; environmental adaptations; social structures; economics; and religion; and are illustrated by selected societies from Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Prerequisite: 102* or permission of the instructor.
Various anthropological theories pertaining to culture change and cultural evolution are examined in the context of the modern world. Long and short term trends in technology and other aspects of culture are examined in the light of thé above ideas. Data from Archaeology, Ethnography, History, modern Science, and Technology will be utilized.
Prerequisites: 101* and 102* or permission of the instructor
Not offered in 1976–77.
Changes in behaviour and social organization during the course of human evolution will be discussed. Topics will include the evolution of human sexual behaviour, altruism, and communication systems.
Prerequisite: 260* or 261* or permission.
An introduction to the working assumptions, analytic approaches, and integrative and descriptive methods of archaeological anthropology.
Recommended to Honours Anthropology students.
Not offered in 1976–77.
A survey of word formation in different languages. Linguisitic approaches to the analysis and description of words, with examples and class problems based upon a number of actual languages. Consideration will be given not only to languages with a relatively simple morphology, such as Chinese and English, but also to languages like Turkish and Ojibwa.
How composite utterances are formed in various languages. The syntactic mechanisms used in different languages will be examined in relation to the transformationalist theory that all languages work along basically similar lines. Examples from Eskimo, Latin, Swahili, Ojibwa, English, and Japanese will be examined in some detail.
Prerequisite: 285*
Course Descriptions 399 Sociology and Anthropology
An analysis of the adaptations of the Northern Athapaskans and Algonkians from time of earliest European contact to the present. Emphasis will be on social and cultural change resulting from the several phases of the fur trade. Consideration will also be given to current adaptations and problems.
Prerequisite: 102* or permission of the instructor
This course deals in depth with the archaeological evidence for the earliest known cultures in the Great Lakes area (mostly prior to 1000 B.C.).
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Primarily for Honours Anthropology studeuts.
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. Primarily for Honours Anthropology students.
Prereq: Anthro, 201* or permission of instructor
Not offered in 1976–77.
A survey of the cultures in the Great Lakes area, with emphasis on the period from ca. 1000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. Permission of instructor. Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
An examination of the relationships among environment, technology, society, and culture. The increasing levels of complexity will be considered in the context of hunting and foraging bands, horticultural tribes and chiefdoms, pastoral tribes, and agricultural peasantry.
Prereq: 101* and 102* or consent 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.
A seminar on certain theories of socialization, acculturation, and enculturation. These theories will be related to what in the west is usually categorized as ‘‘education’’. There will also be some emphasis on understanding how field work should be done in educational settings. Students should be prepared to do some field work themselves.
Prerequisite: 102* or permission of the instructor. Cross listed as Man Env. 335 also.
A study of 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. Prereq: Anthro. 101*, 102* or consent of instructor
345*, 346*, 347*, 349* Special Problems in Anthropology 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.
Prerequisite: Consent of 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.
Prereq: Anthro. 101*, 102* or consent of instructor
A discussion of the alternative means of organizing economic activity, focused primarily on non-market societies.
Prerequisites: 102 or permission of the instructor
Course Descriptions Sociology and Anthropology
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.
Prerequisites: 102 or permission of instructor
A detailed examination of the fossil evidence for human evolution with particular emphasis on interpretation and reconstruction.
Prerequisite: 260* or permission of the instructor
Traditional and recently developed approaches to ethnographic field work are explored. The probleins 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. Prerequisites: 102* or permission of the instructor
Not offered in 1976–77.
Various archaeological techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Major emphasis will be on working with
artifacts in the lab. The relationship to other disciplines such as Pleistocene Geology, Palynology, Paleontology, and Soils Analysis to archaeology will also be dealt with. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
Various ways of processing archaeological data will be demonstrated and discussed. The major emphasis will be on writing up archaeological reports.
Prerequisite: 372* or permission of the instructor. Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
The study of variation and its causes in contemporary human populations. The questions of race and various adaptations of modern human populations will be considered.
Prerequisite: 260* or permission of the instructor
An introduction to the theory of population genetics as it applies to modern man. Techniques for measurement of selection pressures, inbreeding, genetic drift, and mutation rates will be considered.
Prerequisite: 375* or permission of the instructor
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). Wlustration will be from a variety of languages.
3 hours lecture. Prerequisite: At least one previous + half-course in linguistic and one in culturallsocial anthropology
A linguistic approach to the study of meanings expressed in the grammatical systems and lexical 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. Prereq: 102* or permission of instructor
390, 391*, 392, 393%, 395*, 397* Reading in Anthropology Guided reading ina selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthro. major and permission of 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. Prereq: Anthro. 102* or permission of instructor
Seminar on selected contemporary issues in anthropology.
Open only to Honours Anthropology students.
Asurvey of the history of cultural theory from 1850 to 1940.
3 hours lecture. Prerequisites: Anthropology 101*, 102*
Not offered in 1976–77.
An advanced seminar on social organization with emphasis on kinship in the ordering of social behaviour. Both componential analysis and formal analysis of kinship systems are explored and the relationship between the kinship system and other aspects of social organization is emphasized.
Prerequisite: 202* or permission of the instructor
460° Advanced Physical Anthropology
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
Not offered in 1976–77.
Directed reading and research in a selected area of anthropological inquiry.
Open only to Honours Anthropology students