46 courses in the 1984–85 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Department of Anthropology
Associate Professor, Chairman of the
Department
T.S. Abier, BA (Northwestern), MS (Wisconsin-Milwaukee), PhD (Toronto)
Professor S.M. Weaver,’ BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professors
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)
M. Shimpo,? BA (international Christian, Japan) MA, PhD (British Columbia) J
Assistant Professors M.H. Hill, BA (Washington), MA (Washington State), PhD (Southern - Ilinois) , A.C. Zeller, BSc (Trent), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Faculty Members of Anthropology holding cross and/or joint appointments to.
Urban and Regional Planning
Course Descriptions
Courses not offered in the current academic year are listed at the end of this section.
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.
A student may not take both ANTH 102A and ANTH 102B for credit.
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.
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 the working assumptions, analytic approaches, and integrative and descriptive methods of archaeological anthropology.
An introduction to basic concepts used by social anthropologists for the analysis of social, economic, political and ideational systems..
Prereq: ANTH 102A or ANTH 102B or permission of the instructor -
This is a general introduction to North American Archaeology. The traditional cultural ecological approach is used.
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 the Europeans. Cultural ecology and cultural evolution will be stressed.
Honours Anthropology students should take ANTH 322.
A comparative ethnological survey of selected indigenous societies in the Pacific Region.
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
An analysis of present-day Canadian Indian politics, economics, sociat organization. and education. The emergence of pan-Indianism and largescale 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 include osteology, growth and development, the fossil record, and genetics.
Prereq: ANTH 101 or permission of the instructor
An introduction to the behaviour of nonhuman primates and its relevance to human development. Topics will include social organization, role of behaviour, and communication patterns, as well as the history of primate studies.
This course systematically examines research design and methodology in anthropology.
An introduction to the way in which anthropologists study the system of behaviour and belief known as religion.
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Area . 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 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
Directed independent research. Prereq: Permission of instructor
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).
Prereq: One of ANTH 102A or 1028, or P SCI 101 or 102M, or SOC 101
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
A seminar in the current issues in the anthropology of aging. Among the topics to be covered: life span and life expectancy; perceptions of the aging process; treatment of the aged; aging and gender; aging and death, as experience and process. Students will be responsible for class reports and a research project.
Prereq: ANTH 102A or 102B or permission of 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 anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology Major or Honours student and permission of the instructor
Directed reading and research in a selected area of anthropology inquiry.
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