82 courses in the 1978–79 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, 8S (S.W. Texas State Colfege), 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)
H.V. Herman, MA (Toronto)
M.H. Hill, BA (Washington), MA (Washington State) PhD (Southern Illinois)
J. Rogers, BA (Radcliffe), MA (New Mexico), PhD (Toronto) ~
Lecturers T.German, BA (Victoria}, MA (Toronto) S. G. Hornshaw, BA, MA (Manitoba)
Faculty members holding cross appointments as shown Anthropology and Urban Regional Planning 2Anthropology and Man-Environment Studies
Course Descriptions
Notes
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.
Anthropology 101 courses introduce physical anthropology and archaeology. Anthropology 102 courses introduce social-cuitural anthropology. The letter designations (A, B, C, etc.) indicate the special approach of the course. A student may take introductory courses in any order. Either 101, 102, 103 or 104 may be taken first and any combination may be taken together.
An overview of Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. Lectures on living and fossil primates, the fossil evidence for the origins and development of man, modern races, and archaeological evidence for the origins and development of culture.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Course Descriptions Anthropology
This course focuses on various ecolagical systems which include human populations. Emphasis will be on societal and individual! adaptations to environmental problems such as altitude, cold, and fluctuations in food supply. Formerly Anth 105A
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.
Formerly Anth 105B.
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.
Formerly Anth 105D
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
Basic anthropological concepts, such as biological and cultural evolution, culture, human adaptability, and culture contact will be explored through examples from science fiction and related anthropological studies. Formerly 105F
The principles of cultural anthropology will be taught by using the ethnic cultures in Canada as a descriptive base. Formerly 105H
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.
An introduction to basic concepts used by social anthropologists for the analysis of social, economic, poltical, and ideational systems.
Recommended to Honours Anthropology students. Prereq: Anth 102 or Anth 105 or permission of instructor.
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.
Formerly Anth 105C
The social basis of verbal communication. A consideration of social factors affecting speech, including dialect variations associated with social groups, styles for different occasions, and attitudes affecting language usage.
Prereq: Anth 103 or 104 or permission of the instructor
Not offered 1978-79 Anth21Q
Anthropology of Religion
Not offered 1978-79
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 froma broad spectrum of societies.
Course Descriptions . 213 Anthropology
Old World Prehistory. The Food Procuring Phases
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 non-agricultural peoples of recent times.
Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology credit
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A Survey
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
Asurvey of the cultures and societies of the sub-Saharan Africa. An emphasis will be placed upon the ethnographic present.
Prereq: Anth 102 or Anth 105
A comparative ethnological survey of selected indigenous societies in the Pacific region.
An examination of precolonial cultural developments in Western Africa from agricultural beginnings to the developmentof states, focusing on the Sahel, Savannah, and Forest Zones.
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Pastoral (big game hunting dependent upon the horse) and horticultural (farming) societies north of the high civilizations of Mexico are described as they existed when initially contacted by Europeans.
Prereq: Second year standing (Anth 102 or 105 or 237 is desirable)
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Eskimo cultures of Alaska, Canada, and Greeentand 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)
This course analyzes the traditional social structure as wellas changes in social, economic, and cultural spheres inselected 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.
Prereq: Sociology 101 or Anth 101, 102
Offered at St. Jerome's College
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A survey of Caribbean society in which particular attention will be devoted to an analysis of the historical, cultural, and socio-economic background of selected representative Caribbean societies, within the general framework of the continuing process of acculturation in this area.
Prereq: Anth 102 or permission of the instructor Offered at St. Jerome’s College
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Various approaches to the study of urban centers as undertaken by anthropologists are surveyed. Topics examined include urbanism, urbanization, and urban poverty in pre-industrial and industrial societies. Special emphasis is on Canada.
Prereq: Anth 102 or Anth 105 or permission of the instructor.
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The economic and social aspects of peasantry as well as the position of peasants within a society as a whole will be examined. Examples from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa will be used.
Course Descriptions Anthropology
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 are examined using data from Archeology, Ethnography, and Science.
Prereq: Anth 101 or 102 or permission of the instructor —
Data, methods, and theory in the study of the origin and evolution of humans are surveyed. Topics will include osteology, growth and development, the fossil record, and genetics.
Prereq: Anth 101 or Anth105 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.
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The bioecological and socio-cultural aspects of the aging process will be discussed. Specific topics include neurology, physiology, disease, diagnostic procedures, and prognosis in cultural contexts.
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
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An examination of language as it reflects the culture of the speakers. Focus will be on exploring aspects of vocabulary and special usages for their cultural relevance, with illustrations from a variety of languages. Prereq: One half-course from each of linguistics and socio-cultural anthropology.
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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. Prereg: Anth 275 or permission of the instructor.
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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.
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Various approaches to the phenomenon of ethnicity will be examined and illustrated from a social anthropological perspective. Special emphasis will be placed on the ethnography of ethnicity/ethnicities and on vertical and horizontal differentiation in Canada.
Course Descriptions 215 Anthropology
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A comparison will be made of the roles of men and women in human evolution and in social life. The special problems encountered by men and women field workers will also be considered.
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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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Various archaeological techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Major emphasis will be on working with artifacts in the lab. The relationship of other disciplines such as Pleistocene Geology, Palynology, Paleontology, and Soils Analysis to archaeology will also be dealt with. Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
Prereq: Permission of the instructor
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Prehistoric cultural systems in the Americas prior to the adventof horticulture are studied. The major emphasis is on North American Paleo-Indian cultural-ecologica! systems.
Prereq: Anth 203, 222, or 322, or permission of the
instructor.
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The technical and ethical aspects of directed culture change will be examined using examples from Canada and elsewhere.
Prereq: One-half-credit in socio-cultural anthropology
Anth 290, 9Q9 4 1.0
Reading in Anthropology
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology major or honours student and permission of the instructor
Anth391, 393, 395, 397 S,F,W 0.5 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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Honours Seminar . Seminar on selected contemporary issues in
anthropology. Open only to Honours anthropology
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Anthropology
A survey of the history of cultural theory from 1850 to 1904.
Prereq: One credit in socio-cultural anthropology
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An examination of selected topics of current research interest in physical anthropology. Students will be
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Prereq: Anth 260 and permission of instructor.
Different theoretical approaches - stratificational, transformational, and signals grammar, one approach to be emphasized during each offering.
Prereq: Anth 286 or Eng/ 375 or permission of the instructor
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Directed reading and research in a selected area of anthropology inquiry.
Open only to Honours Anthropology students
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Sex roies in Anthropology