54 courses in the 1983–84 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
An overview of Physica! 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.
Required for Anthropology Honours students and Majors.
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 student may not take both ANTH 102A and ANTH 102B for credit. Anthropology Honours students and Majors must take ANTH 102A or ANTH 102B.
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.
A Student may not take both ANTH 102A and ANTH 102B for credit. Anthropology Honours students and Majors must take ANTH 102A or ANTH 1028.
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.
Honours students and Majors in Anthropology are required to take ANTH 103, ANTH 283, or ANTH 290.
An introduction to the working assumptions, analytic approaches, and integrative and descriptive methods of archaeological anthropology.
Required for Anthropology Honours students and Majors.
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Anthropology
An introduction to basic concepts used by social anthropologists for the analysis of social, economic, potitical and ideational systems.
Prereq: ANTH 102A or ANTH 102B or permission of instructor. Required for Anthropology Honours students and Majors.
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.
Examination of the transition to an economy based on food production, the spread of food producing economies, the rise of civilization. Areas and periods of emphasis will vary from year to year.
Not acceptable for Honours Anthropology credit.
A comparative ethnologica! survey of selected indigenous societies in the Pacific Region.
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. Prereq: Second year standing.
By correspondence only for 1983-84.
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.
An analysis of present-day Canadian Indian politics, economics, social organization, and education. The emergence of pan-Indianism and farge-scale Indian organizations will be examined as responses to the Federal Government's policy of withdrawing and decentralizing administrative services for native people.
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 inctude osteology, growth and development, the fossil record, and genetics.
Prereq: ANTH 101 or permission of the instructor.
Required for Anthropology Honours students and Majors. By correspondence only for 1983 ;84.
An introduction to the behaviour of non-human primates and its relevance to human development. Topics will inctude social organization, rote of : behaviour, and communication
patterns, as well as the history of primate studies.
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.
Honours students and Majors in Anthropology are required to take ANTH 103, ANTH 283, or ANTH 290.
This course systematically examines research design and methodology in anthropology.
Prereq: ANTH 101, ANTH 102A or ANTH 102B.
Required for all Anthropology Honours Students.
An introduction to the way in which anthropologists study the system of ° behaviour and belief known as religion.
Cultural development from the agri- ©
cultural 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. Areas and periods of emphasis will vary from year to year.
Prereq: ANTH 201 or permission of the 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: Full credit in Anthropology or consent of the instructor.
Required for alf Anthropology Honours students and Majors.
Directed independent research. Prereq: Permission of instructor.
Directed independent research. Prereq: Permission of instructor.
A seminar to investigate the role of the sexes in human evolution and the ways in which gender categories and the concept of sex roles are considered in anthropological literature.
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Anthropology
A comparative survey of government policies on native minorities with emphasis on recent attempts to involve native groups in the policy-making processes. The course will compare policy approaches to Canadian Indians and Metis, Australian Aboriginals, New Zealand Maoris and Scandinavian Samis (Lapps). : Prereg: One of ANTH 102A or 1028, or P SCI 101 or 102M, or SOC 101. .
Students may not take for credit both ANTH 347 and ANTH 351.
The techniques and problems of ethnographic field work will be explored. Emphasis wilt 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 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.
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 anthropologicai literature.
Prereq: Anthropology Major or Honours student and 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, and general and specific evolution.
Prereq: One credit in socio-cultural anthropology.
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An examination of the Principles of Variation in human evolution past and present. This will include the development of the genus Homo, adaptation of modern populations to heat, cold, altitude and stress, and the continuing microevolutionary development of humans.
Prereq: ANTH 260
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropologicat 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. Required for all Anthropology Honours students.
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