42 courses in the 1991–92 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Undergraduate Officer T.S. Abler, PAS 2009, ext. 3044
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.
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 102 or permission of the instructor
This is a general introduction to North American Archaeology. The traditional cultural ecological approach is used.
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.
Course Descriptions Anthropology
A general survey of the archaeological evidence for prehistoric cultures in the Great Lakes area from their 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.
Complexity ; Archaeological approaches to cultural complexity are examined, using New and Old World examples. Topics considered may include: agricultural origins, megaliths, chiefdoms, states and the emergence of cities, and early civilizations. Regional emphasis may vary.
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.
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Data methods and theory in the study of the origin and evolution of humans are surveyed. Topics will include genetic theory, primate evolution, human fossils and modern human adaption.
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.
An in depth study of the archaeological evidence for prehistoric cultures in the Great Lakes area from their 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
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).
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 102 or permission of the instructor
A detailed examination of the fassil evidence for human evolution with particular emphasis on interpretation 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
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological 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, natavistic reactions, and general and specific evolution.
Prereq: One credit in socio-cultural anthropology
Course Descriptions
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
Directed reading and research ina
selected area of anthropology inquiry. A letter grade for ANTH 499A will be
submitted only after the completion of
ANTH 499B.
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