87 courses in the 1979–80 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, 8A (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)
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 (Vic BC), 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-cultural 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.
Course Descriptions Anthropology
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 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 1058
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.
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 consider.
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, political, and ideationat 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.
This course deals with the basic theoretical approaches to the study of the socio-cultural aspect of humankind. Students will be introduced to the works of major anthropological thinkers from the mid-19th century to the present.
An introduction to the way in which anthropologists study the system of behaviour and belief known as religion.
This course will apply anthropological models to understand the formation and growth of cults and religious movements in pre-literate and contemporary society.
Course Descriptions 227 Anthropology
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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 acceptable for Honours Anthropology credit.
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Problems in cultural dynamics will be considered as exemplified in the rise and effects of the civilizations of Meso and South America.
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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)
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 231 is desirable)
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This course analyzes the traditional social structure as weil 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. Prereq: Sociology 1017 or Anth 107, 102
Offered at St. Jerome's College
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Various approaches to the study of urban centres 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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On location study of archaeological sites and collections in particular regions, focusing on particular sequences, periods or problems. Stress will be on the regional and local settings of prehistoric cultures. Topics and regions will vary from year to year.
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, History, Technology 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 Anth 105 or permission of the instructor.
Course Descriptions Anthropology
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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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 with an informant who speaks an unfamiliar language.
A survey of word formation in different languages. Linguistic approaches to the analysis and description of words, with examples and class problems based on 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.
Prereq: Anth 285
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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 rjse of early civilization in the Near East. Primarily for ‘ Honours Anthropology students
Prereq: Anth 275 or permission of the instructor
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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: Full credit in Anth or consent of the instructor
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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.
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Anthropology .
Students in this seminar will participate in a group research project dealing with some aspect of our urban environment. Our data and conclusions will be niade into a film.
Prereq: Anth 247 or permission of the instructor
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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
The techniques and problems of ethnographic field work will be explored. Emphasis will be on field 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. Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
Prereq: Permission of the instructor
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Prehistoric cultural systems in the Americas prior to the advent of horticulture are studied. The major emphasis is on North American Paleo-Indian cultural-ecological systems.
Prereq: Anth 203, 222, or 322, or 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, assimilation, conflict, nativistic reactions, and general and specific evolution. Prereq: One credit in socio-cultural anthropology
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Course Descriptions Anthropology’
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An examination of selected topics of current research interest in physical anthropology. Students will be encouraged to undertake guided research projects. Prereq: Anth 260 and permission of instructor.
Different theoretical approaches - stratificational, transformational, and signals grarnmar, one approach to be emphasized during each offering.
Prereq: Anth 286 or Engi 375 or permission of the instructor. Given on request
Directed reading and research in a selected area of anthropology inquiry..
Open only to Honours Anthropology students
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