40 courses in the 1989–90 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 arigins 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.
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
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.
The cultures of Canadian Indians are
described as they existed when initially
contacted by Europeans. Considera-
tion 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 analysed and compared, as will the contemporary problems these communities face..
Prereq: Second-year standing
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.
Data, methods, and theory in the study of the origin and evolution of humans are surveyed. Topits 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 non-human primates and its relevance to human development. Topics will include social organization, role behaviour, and communications patterns, as well as the history of primate studies.
This course systematically examines research design and methodology in anthropology.
Prereq: ANTH 202
An introduction to the way in which anthropologists study the system of behaviour and belief known as religion.
Course Descriptions 16:7 Anthropology
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 evgjution 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
Examines the practical application of
anthropological knowledge to programs
for change in Canada as well as in
Third and Fourth World societies. Prereq: ANTH 202
An examination of the historical origins and development of culture theory. The major emphasis is on the period from the appearance of anthropology as a distinct discipline in the nineteenth century until the emergence of modern perspectives in the 1950s.
Prereq: ANTH 102A or 102B or permission of the instructor
A detailed examination of the fossil evidence for human evolution with particular emphasis on intefpretation and reconstruction.
Prereq: ANTH 260 or 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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Anthropology
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology, Major or Honours student and permission of the instructor
Seminar on current topics in method and theory in Anthropology. Focus will vary from year to year.
Prereq: ANTH 201 or 202
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
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
ANTH 49948 FW 0.5105 7 /
Honours Essay
Directed reading and research in a
selected area of anthropology. inquiry. A letter grade for ANTH 499A will be
submitted only after the completion of
ANTH 4998.
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