44 courses in the 1993–94 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.
“A survey of the discoveries of Physical Anthropology and Anthropological Archaeology. Lectures on living and fossil primates, the fossil evidence for the origins and development of humans, and archaeological evidence concerning the origins and development of culture from the earliest tool making through the beginnings of civilization.
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.
Course Descriptions Anthropology
An introduction to the working assumptions, analytic approaches, and integrative and descriptive methods of archaeological anthropology.
Archaeology and Cultural Adaptation: Gatherers and Hunters The technology. social organization and ideology of prehistoric and historic peoples who subsist without domesticated plants or animals. Archaeology and ethnographic evidence concerning human adaptations over the past three 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
An examination of Inuit and Eskimo cultures of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland 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
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 nonhuman 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
16:7
An introduction to the way in which anthropologists study the system of behaviour and belief known as religion.
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
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
Seminar in current issues in the anthropoiogy of the life cycle. This course will deal with child rearing, young adulthood, aging and the female and male life cycles, among other topics, from the perspectives of various cultures.
This course focuses on methodological and ideational aspects of studying primate behaviour. Topics include fieldwork methods, comparative theoretical approaches, mother-intant interaction, infanticide, socialization and communications patterns.
Prereq: ANTH 261
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 4994/8 FW,S 0.5/0.5 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.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.
Not offered in 1993–94.