47 courses in the 1985–86 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 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.
Anthropology : 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.
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 anthropolgicai 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
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This is a general introduction to North
American Archaeology. The traditional
cultural ecological approach is used. 4
Area - 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 the Europeans. Cultural ecology and cultural evolution will be stressed.
Honours Anthropology students should take ANTH 322.
Archaeology of Foodways: Gatherers and Hunters The technology, social organization and ideology of prehistoric and historic peoples who subsist without domesticated plants or animals. Archaeological and ethnographic evidence conceming human adaptations over the past 3 million years are considered.
Prereq: ANTH 101
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
land from their prehistoric origins to the present. Administrative systems imposed upon the Inuit and Eskimo will be analyzed and compared, a8 will the contemporary problems these communities face.
Prereq: Second year standing
Scene ; ; 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.
Anthropological theories pertaining lo culture change and cultural evclution 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 ostedlogy, growth and development, the fossil record, and genetics.
Praraq: ANTH 101 or permission of the instructor
An introduction to the behaviour of non-human primates and its relevance to human development. Topics will include social organization, role of behaviour, and communication patterns, as weil as the history of primate studies.
Techniques: Survey of archaeplogical approaches to data focusing on field observation and recording. Some attention is given to the contribution of other disciplines to archaeology.
Prereq: ANTH 201
Data gatnéring techniques will be studied and applied in field work on archaeological sites in the Waterloo area, Materials and transportation fee. Enrolment is limited, and instructor's - permission must be obtained. Offered concurrently with ANTH 372. This course will meet one half day, five days a week, for one month.
This course systematically examines research design and methodology in anthropology.
Prereq: ANTH 101, ANTH 102A or ANTH 1028
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Area : An in-depth study of the archaeological evidence of prehistoric man in the Great Lakes area from his arrivai 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: Fulf 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
Supervised research in field or laboratory studies and analysis in archaeology. Prereq: ANTH 270. Offered concurrently with ANTH 271
Course Descriptions Anthropology
ation in human evolution past and present. This will include the developmet 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 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. A latter grade for ANTH 499A will be
submitted only after the completion of
ANTH 4998.
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