61 courses in the 1980–81 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Associate Professor, Chairman of the Department T.S. Abler, BA (Northwestern), MS (Wisconsin- Milwaukee), PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professors
D. E. Counts, BS (S. W. Texas State College), MA (Kentucky), PhD (Southern IHinois)
Wm. B. Roosa, BA (Texas Christian), MA (New Mexico), PhD (Michigan)
M. Shimpo’, BA (International Christian, Japan) MA, PhD (Br. Col.) J
S. M. Weaver2, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Assistant Professor M. H. Hill, BA (Washington), MA (Washington State), PhD (Southern Iilinois)
Faculty members holding cross and/or joint
appointments as shown
Sociology and Anthropology (St. Jerome’s)
2Anthropology and Urban Regional Planning
Coursé Descriptions
Notes
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) indicate the special approach of the course. A student may take introductory courses in any order. Either 101, 102, or 103 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.
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.
Course Descriptions Anthropology
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
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, economics, political, and ideational systems. Recommended to Honours Anthropology students. Prereq: Anth 102 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.
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.
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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 non-agricultural peoples of recent times.
Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology credit
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The cultures of Canadian Indians are described as they existed when initially contacted by Europeans. Consideration is given to economic adaptation, social organization, political structure, material culture, ritual, and mythology.
Prerequisite: Second year standing
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
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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..
This course analyzes the traditional social structure as well as changes in social, economic and cultural spheres in Japan since 1868. Current topics such as land reform, the consequent changes, and changing values in Japanese society will be analyzed.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
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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 Archaeology, 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 permission of the instructor.
An introduction to the behaviour of the non-human primates with emphasis on relevance to the origin of man. Topics will include sexual behaviour, mating systems, aggression, territoriality, and communication.
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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.
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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
An introduction to the way in which anthropologists study the system of behaviour and belief known as religion.
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.
Prereq: 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.
Prereq: Anth 203 or consent of the instructor
An examination of the relationships among environment, technology, society, and culture. The increasing leveis 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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independent research
Prereq: Permission of instructor
independent research
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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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.
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. Students will be expected to complete a field project of their own.
Prereq: Anth 202 or consent of the instructor
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.
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Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology major or honours student and permission of the instructor.
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, assimilation, conflict, nativistic reactions, and general and specific evolution.
Prereq: One credit in socio-cultural anthropology
A survey of the history of cultural theory from 1850 to 1940.
Prereq: One credit in socio-cultural anthropology
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Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology major or honours student and permission of the instructor.
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology major or honours student and permission of the instructor.
Directed reading and research in a selected area of anthropology inquiry.
Open only to Honours Anthropology students.
Course Descriptions 243
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