43 courses in the 1994–95 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 too! 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 modem, developed societies.
An introduction to the working assumptions, analytic approaches, and integrative and descriptive methods of archaeolagical anthropology..
An introduction to basic concepts used by social and cultural anthropologists for the analysis of social, economic, political and ideational systems.
Prereq: ANTH 102 or permission of instructor
This is a general introduction to North American Archaeology. The traditional cultural ecological approach is used.
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.
Course Descriptions Anthropology
Archaeological approaches to cultural complexity are examined, using New and Old World exampies. Topics considered may include: agricultural origins, megaliths, chiefdoms, states and the emergence of cities, and early civilizations. Regional emphasis may vary.
Data, methods and theory in the study of the origin and evolution of humans are surveyed. Topics will include genetic theo- Ty, primate evolution, human fossils and modern human adaption.
Prereq: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor
This course systematically examines research design and methodology in
anthropology. Prereq: ANTH 202
Anthropological theories and concepts are examined as they are explored in fiction and fantasy. Among the issues discussed will be the relationship between nature and culture, the course of human physical and cultural evolution, the relationship between humans and non-human primates, the role of the symbol in human thought, and the nature of human society. The works of Geertz, Turner, Levi-Strauss, LeGuin, Goiding and Card are among those studied.
Antireq: ANTH 210
An introduction to the way in which anthropologists study the system of behaviour and belief known as religion.
Cultural development from the agricultural revolution to the rise of literacy. Special attention to the development of agriculture as a means of subsistence and to the rise of early civilization. Areas and periods of emphasis will vary from year to year. Prereq: ANTH 201 or permission of instructor Primarily for Honours Anthropology students
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 instructor
Antireq: ANTH 222
An examination of the relationships among environment, technology, society, and cul ture. 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: Two term courses in Anthropology or consent of instructor
Directed independent research. Prereq: Permission of instructor
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 instructor
A detailed examination of the fossil evidence for human evolution with particular emphasis on interpretation and reconstruction.
Prereq: ANTH 260 or permission of instructor
Guided reading in a selected partion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology Major or Honours student and permission of instructor
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology Major or Honours student and permission of instructor
Seminar in current issues in the anthropology 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.
An examination of the Principles of
Variation in human evolution past and pre-
sent. This will include the development of
the genus Homo, adaptation of modern
populations to heat, cold, altitude and
stress, and the continuing micro-
evolutionary development of human. Prereq: ANTH 260
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology Major or Honours student and permission of instructor
Guided reading in a selected portion of the anthropological literature.
Prereq: Anthropology Major or Honours student and permission of instructor
Directed reading and research in a
selected area of anthropology inquiry. A letter grade for ANTH 4994 will be
submitted only after the completion of
ANTH 4998.
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