83 courses in the 1977–78 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Associate Professor, Chairperson of the Department S. M. Weaver,' BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professors
T.S.Abler, BA (Northwestern), MS (Wisconsin-Milwaukee), PhD (Toronto)
D.E. Counts, BS (S.W. Texas State College), MA (Kentucky), PhD (Southern Illinois)
Wm. B. Roosa, BA (Texas Christian), MA (New Mexico), PhD (Michigan)
Assistant Professors
C. E. De'Ath*, BA (Auckland), ASOPA Cert (Sydney), MEd, PhD (Pittsburgh)
M.H. Hill, 8A (Washington), MA (Washington State) PhD (Southern Illinois)
S. Gabow, BA (California - Berkeley), PhD (Toronto)
J. Rogers, BA (Radcliffe), MA (New Mexico), PhD (Toronto)
Faculty members holding cross appointments as shown 1 Anthropology and Urban Regional Planning 2? Anthropology and Man-Environment Studies
Course Descriptions Anthropology
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Note
Many of the listed courses are given irregularly. While this calendar is as up-to-date as deadlines permit, 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 evidence for the origins and develapment of man, modern races, and archaeological evidence for the origins and development of culture.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
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. Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
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.
First and second language learning are considered from linguistic and anthropological points of view, with emphasis on problems arising in second language learning. Examples stress English, French, and the Native languages of Canada.
The following courses (Anth 105A-K) illustrate general principles of anthropology through the exploration of specific topics.
This course focuses on various ecological systems which include human populations. Emphasis will be on societal and individual adaptations to environmental problems such as altitude, cold, and fluctuations in food st:nply.
This is a general introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology. It examines the evidence for ancient man in the Old World and New World with emphasis on tool making and cultural ecology. The popular view is contrasted with the traditional anthropological approach.
This is a general introduction to North American Archaeology. The traditional cultural ecological approach is compared and contrasted with the more revolutionary ideas recently expounded by popular | writers.
The technological and social transformations of the past 14 million years are examined as uniquely human solutions to the problems of survival in a changing natural and cultural environment. Based on archaeological and comparative ethnological and primatological evidence.
European expansions effects on diverse cultures and societies are explored. The role of the anthropologist as agent for the oppressor and as advocate for the oppressed is examined. The prospects of anthropology in a post-colonial world are suggested.
Basic anthropological concepts, such as biotogical and cultural evolution, culture, human adaptability, and culture contact will be explored through examples from science fiction and related anthropological studies.
The principles of cultural anthropology will be taught by using the ethnic cultures in Canada as a descriptive base.
Examined are a variety of human societies from technologically primitive bands of Australia to tribal peoples of South America and New Guinea through peasant cultures, rural communities, and urban gangs of Europe and North America.
Course Descriptions 215 Anthropology *
An introduction to basic concepts used by social anthropologists for the analysis of social, economic, political, and ideational systems.
Recommended to Honours Anthropology students. Prereq: Anth 102 or Anth 105 or permission of instructor.
The biology of race will be considered in broad terms. Origins and adaptations of the various ‘races’ in Canada will be critically examined. Against this background, past and present treatment of these racial groups will be examined, focusing on the distinction between race and ethnicity and on the social and legal contexts in which . these groups have developed.
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Old World Prehistory. The Food Producing Phases Examination of the transition to an economy based on food production, the spread of food producing economies, the rise of civilization in the Near East to the early literate periods. Consideration of later prehistoric developments in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Not accepfable for Honours Anthropology credit
A general survey of the archaeological evidence of prehistoric man in the Great Lakes area from his arrival ca. 11,000 years ago to the coming of Europeans. Cultural ecology and cultural evolution will be stressed. Honours Anthropology students should take Anth 322
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The society and culture of North American Indian hunters and gatherers (excluding big game hunters dependent upon the horse) is surveyed. The course concentrates on the adaptation exhibited by these peoples at the time they were first contacted by Europeans.
Prereq: Second year standing (Anth 102 or 105 is desirable)
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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 analyzed and compared, as will the contemporary problems these communities face today.
Prereq: Second year standing (Anth 102 or 105 is desirable)
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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.
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Urban Anthropology
Approaches to the study of urban centres as undertaken by anthropologists. Selected topics such as urban social networks, the urbanization of non-westérn societies, and the culture of poverty will be pursued.
Prereq: Anth 102 or Anth 105 or permission of the instructor
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Data, methods, and theory in the study of the origin and evolution of man. Emphasis will be on the fossil evidence. Prereq: Anth 101 or Anth 105 or permission of the instructor
An introduction to the behaviour of the non-human primates with emphasis on the relevance to the origin of man. Topics will include sexual behaviour, mating systems, aggression, territoriality, and communication.
Topics discussed will include comparative anatomy, genetics, and physiology of the living primates as well as the fossil evidence for primate evolution.
Prereq: Anth 260 or permission of the instructor
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Data gathering techniques will be studied and applied in field work on archaeological sites.
Two weeks’ of eight hour days involvement with archaeological! sites in the Waterloo area. Materials and transportation fee of $20-30.
An introduction to the working assumptions, analytic approaches, and integrative and descriptive methods of archaeological anthropology.
Recommended to Honours Anthropology students
Devising adequate writing systems for unwritten
languages. The class will simulate field sessions, withan informant who speaks an‘unfamiliar language.
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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.
Primarily for Honours Anthropology students.
Prereq: Anth 275 or permission of the instructor
An in-depth study of the archaeological evidence of prehistoric man in the Great Lakes area from his arrival ca. 11,000 years ago to the coming of Europeans. Cultural ecology and Cultural evolution will be stressed.
Anexamination 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: Full credit in Anth or consent of the instructor
The nature of planned programmes and their implications for the communities involved through ethnological studies of small communities in Canada and abroad. Reasons for the success or failure of programmes of change are saught in relation to community structure.
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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.
Prereq: Anth 102 or Anth 105 or permission of the instructor
A detailed examination of the fossil evidence for human evolution with particular emphasis on interpretation and reconstruction.
Prereq: Anth 260 or permission of the instructor
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The techniques and problems of ethnographic field work will be explored. Emphasis will be on fie. work in contemporary society and students will be expected to complete a field project on their own.
Prereq: Anth 202 or consent of the instructor
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Various ways of processing archaeological data will be demonstrated and discussed. The major emphasis will be on writing up archaeological reports.
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Prereq: Permission of the instructor
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Language is examined as a vehicle of culture (a linguistics code as a device for communication), as a mirror for culture (lexical and semantic aspects), andasa tool of society (uses and functions of language). lilustrations will be from a variety of languages. Prereq: One half-credit from each of linguistics and socio-cultural anthropology
A linguistic approach to the study of meaning expressed in the grammatical systems and lexical sets of particular languages.
Prereq: One hailf-credit in linguistics or permission of the instructor
The technical and ethical aspects of directed culture change will be examined.
Prereq: One-half-credit in socio-cultural anthropology
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Reading in Anthropology
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological! literature.
Prereq: Anthropology major or honours student and — permission of the instructor
Anth 391, 393, 395, 397 S,F,W 5 Reading in Anthropology
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology major or honours student and permission of the instructor
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An analysis of contemporary thought on culture contact and Cultural evolution. The concepts to be explored might include integration, assimitation, conflict, nativistic reactions, and general and specific evolution. Prereq: One credit in socio-cultural anthropology
Seminar on selected contemporary issues in - anthropology. Open only to Honours anthropology students.
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Directed reading and research in a selected area of anthropology inquiry.
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