Anthropology ANTH
Instruction offered by members of the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Department Head - D. Hatt
Junior Courses
Anthropology 201 H(3-0)(Area II)
Introduction to Primatology and Human Evolution
Introduction to evolutionary theory and processes, with particular reference to the primates. Topics include primate taxonomy, distribution, reproduction, locomotion, diet, social organization, and evolution, with special emphasis on the path of human evolution.
Anthropology 203 H(3-0)(Area II)
Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
The nature of human society: its elements, its variability and its perpetuation. Conclusions will be drawn from comparisons of institutions (political, economic, religious, educational and sexual) in both small-scale and large-scale societies.
Anthropology 213 H(3-0)(Area II)
Contemporary Aboriginal Issues in Canada
An exploration of the history of Aboriginal/state relations, the development of Indian policy, and current efforts of Aboriginal peoples to address historical matters through the critique of the residential school system and the pursuit of self government, land claims, modern treaties and Aboriginal rights. Includes a critical examination of Canadian historical writing, popular culture, and stereotypes of Indians and will survey contemporary Aboriginal expressions of identity in the arts, literature, cultural performances, and other public contexts.
Senior Courses
Anthropology 303 H(3-0)(Area II)
Business in Cultural Context
Ways in which differences in cultural values and practices affect the form and nature of interaction between business parties, especially those of differing national/cultural/ethnic backgrounds.
Anthropology 307 H(3-0)(Area III)
Introduction to Anthropological Statistics
The basic techniques and applications of statistics in Anthropology.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 201 or 203 or consent of the Department.
Note: Credit towards degree requirements will be given for only one of Anthropology 307, Applied Psychology 301/303, Engineering 319, Political Science 399, Psychology 312, Sociology 311/315, Statistics 201/211, 213/217, 327, 333, 357; that one being a course appropriate to the degree program.
Anthropology 311 H(3-0)(Area III)
Primate Behaviour
Primate behaviour and related topics: social dynamics, sociobiology, socio-ecology, dominance, aggression, kinship, sexual behaviour, socialization, learning, cognition, communication, ape language, and conservation.
Anthropology 315 H(3-0)(Area II)
Military Anthropology
Comparative survey of the organization of military institutions and their relationship with the larger society, based on historical and ethnographic sources.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 317 H(3-0)(Area II)
Ethnographic Survey of Africa South of the Sahara
Traditional societies in sub-Saharan Africa, concentrating on a number of classical social anthropological fieldwork studies.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 319 H(3-0)(Area II)
Ethnographic Survey of North Africa
Ethnographic survey of the peoples of North Africa, including the Sahara, and historical analysis of their incorporation within the contemporary national states of the region.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 321 H(3-0)(Area II)
Ethnographic Survey of Latin America
A survey of cultural traditions of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America as they have evolved since the 16th century.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 323 H(3-0)(Area II)
Culture and Society of China
Diversity of social and cultural patterns in imperial and contemporary times.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 327 H(3-0)(Area II)
Culture and Society of Modern Japan
Sources of Japanese identity: historical introduction; dynamic interaction between culture and personality; social structure and religion; how traditional values have shaped social and scientific modernization; sources of problems in cross-cultural communication.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 331 H(3-0)(Area II)
Anthropology of Gender
Comparative analysis of gender as a central feature of social identity and of social relations of power, with particular reference to feminist approaches to the exploration of women's experience in their historical and cultural variety.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 335 H(3-0)(Area II)
Culture and Environment of Selected Circumpolar Peoples
Peoples and cultures of the circumpolar area with an emphasis upon environmental adaptation and the effects of culture contact.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 337 H(3-0)(Area II)
Indigenous Knowledge and Global Developments
Contemporary anthropological approaches to indigenous knowledge and peoples, particularly in their relationships to industrial and post-industrial societies.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 341 H(3-0) (Area II)
Medical Anthropology
A survey of anthropological approaches to disease, illness and the maintenance of health.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 351 H(3-3)(Area III)
Method and Theory in Primatology
Focus on observational methods and analysis, with practical application in laboratory study at the Calgary Zoo. Theoretical perspectives of behavioural ecology as applied to primate studies.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 201 or consent of the Department.
Note: Field trips required. Anthropology 307 or equivalent statistical course is highly recommended.
Anthropology 353 H(3-3)(Area III)
Primate Evolution
Focus on cladistic methods in taxonomy and theory in systematics and evolution. Discussion of major problems in primate evolution. Laboratory work involving cladistic analyses of fossil primate lineages.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 201 or Archaeology 203 or consent of the Department.
Note: Anthropology 307 or equivalent statistical course is highly recommended.
Anthropology 355 H(3-0) (Area II)
An Ethnographic Survey of Native North America
Selected North American Indian cultures in terms of the relationships among basic subsistence adaptations, social, ceremonial, and ideological structures.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 357 H(3-0) (Area II)
Applied Anthropology
Introduction to the practical use of anthropological knowledge and research methods. Includes discussion of the specific challenges of practicing anthropology outside of academia.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 363 H(3-0)(Area II)
Anthropological Perspectives on Religion
Contemporary anthropological theoretical perspectives on indigenous and world religions.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 365 H(3-0)(Area II)
Anthropological Theory
Study of a variety of theories in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and their implications for research design and fieldwork.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Corequisites: Prerequisite or Corequisite: Anthropology 387.
Anthropology 367 H(3-0)(Area II)
Ritual and Cultural Performance
Anthropological theories of political, social, symbolic and performative aspects of ritual and the role of ritual in the reproduction and contestation of cultural identities.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 371 H(3-0)(Area II)
Political Anthropology
Comparative analysis of power, authority, dependency relations, and processes of governance, from the perspective of social anthropology, with primary emphasis on stateless societies and formative states.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 375 H(3-0)(Area II)
Anthropology of Law
Systems of law and social control in both state and non-state societies.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 379 H(3-0)(Area II)
Urban Anthropology
A study of tribalism, ethnicity, sub-cultures, social networks and related phenomena in urban societies. Attention will be paid to planning and applied urban anthropology.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 383 H(3-0)(Area II)
The Nature of Ethnographic Writing
Paradoxes of the boundary between fiction and non-fiction, contrasting the poetics and "Aiterary" features of conventional ethnography with the factuality and analytical power of ethnic novels and stories. Between these two extremes, a variety of intermediate or "blurred" genres (personal diaries, experimental anthropology, etc.) will be identified and explored.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 385 H(3-0)(Area II)
Economic Anthropology
Comparative analysis of production, distribution and consumption in small-scale and complex societies; theories of exchange; effects of capitalism upon traditional economies and social organization.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 387 H(3-0)(Area II)
Ethnography of Global-Local Dynamics
Changes in the international division of labour and resulting social, cultural, and political effects, with particular attention to the incorporation of small-scale societies.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 399 H(3-0)(Area II)
Ethnographic Survey of Selected World Areas
Arranged for various topics in the anthropology of world areas. Consult department for topics in any given year.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Anthropology 402 F(3-0) (Area II)
Independent Study
Selected topics in anthropology to be offered Majors and Honours in their fourth year. Topics for each student to be arranged on the basis of special interest and need. For Honours students, submission of an acceptable honours essay is required for completion of the honours program and this course.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
Anthropology 404 F(3-0)(Area III)
Independent Study
Selected topics in anthropology to be offered Majors and Honours in their fourth year. Topics for each student to be arranged on the basis of special interest and need. For Honours students, submission of an acceptable honours essay is required for completion of the honours program and this course.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
Anthropology 405 H(3-0)(Area II)
Ecology of Tropical Forest Societies
Adaptation of indigenous societies to their tropical forest habitat, and their transformation under the impact of industrial society.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 411 H(3-0)(Area II)
Methods and Analysis for Anthropology
An introduction to research design, data collection, and analysis as used in anthropology. Cross-cultural research design and methods, use of participant observation and personal documents will be emphasized.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 419 H(3-0)(Area II)
(Archaeology 419)
Ethnography of the Great Plains
Comparative study of peoples and cultures of the Great Plains past and present.
Anthropology 421 H(3-0)(Area II)
Contemporary Latin American Society
An examination of selected issues in the anthropological study of contemporary Latin America.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 321 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 427 H(3-0)(Area II)
Women in East Asian Societies
Comparison of women's roles in China, Japan, and Korea, with particular reference to family structure and economic organization.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 323 or 327.
Anthropology 431 H(3-0)(Area II)
The Ethnographic Construction of Reality
Written and pictorial techniques used by anthropologists in classic and experimental ethnographies to establish their authority and to persuade readers that the facts and patterns they report have an objective existence.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 365, 383, or 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 435 H(3-0)(Area III)
Evolutionary Anthropology
Analysis of evolutionary principles and processes (such as natural selection, sexual selection, kin selection, parental investment) as they are applied to the current study of human and nonhuman primate behaviour. Special emphasis on socioecological approaches to primate behaviour.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 311 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 451 H(3-3)(Area III)
Primate Behavioural Ecology
Behaviour and ecology of selected primate societies, and related theory. Discussion of advanced techniques of field study in behavioural ecology.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 351 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 457 H(3-3)(Area III)
Palaeoprimatology
Examination of the fossil primates, construction of evolutionary models and cladistic scenarios. Techniques for the reconstruction of ecological relationships, behaviour, and social structures of primate lineages.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 353.
Anthropology 461 H(3-0)(Area II)
History of Anthropology
Historical survey of anthropological thought from the enlightenment to the present.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 363 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 465 H(3-0)(Area II)
Identity, Nationalism and Post-Colonialism
A study of the creation of colonial national identities and their disruption by indigenous assertions of identity and sovereignty in settler societies including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203, 365 and 387 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 473 H(3-0)(Area II)
Belief Systems
An anthropological approach to the social construction of reality: the internal logic and structure of closed systems of ideas; processes of legitimization of belief; the resolution of contradictions; and properties of belief systems under conditions of social change.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 363 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 481 H(3-0)(Area II)
Environment, Society and Culture
The relationship between human societies and the physical environment will be examined with emphasis on the relation between cultural behaviour and environmental phenomena.
Corequisites: Prerequisite or Corequisite: One of the following ethnographic courses: Anthropology 317, 319, 321, 323, 327, 331, 335, 427, Archaeology 345, 355, 357, 419.
Anthropology 501 H(3-0)(Area II)
Conference Course in Anthropology
Arranged for various topics of anthropology on the basis of special interest and need.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Anthropology 505 H(3-0)(Area III)
Conference Course in Primatology
Arranged for various topics of primatology on the basis of special interests and need.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 311 and one additional senior Area III primatology course and consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Anthropology 535 H(3-0)(Area II)
History and Theory in Primatology and Physical Anthropology
Historical and theoretical survey of ideas about the biological bases of human and non-human primate social behaviour. Impacts of the theoretical models of the modern synthesis, ethology, behavioural ecology, socio-ecology, and sociobiology or the study of human and non-human primates.
Prerequisites: Minimum Third Year Standing.
Anthropology 541 H(3-0)(Area II)
Field Study in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research projects carried out off campus, under the supervision of a member of academic staff, and resulting in a graded project report.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
Anthropology 552 F(3-3)(Area III)
Field Studies in Primatology
Intensive training and practice in field methods of observational primate behaviour or behavioural ecology.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 351 and consent of the Department.
Corequisites: Anthropology 553 or consent of the Department.
Note: Normally offered during Spring Session.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Anthropology 553 H(3-3)(Area III)
Primate Behavioural Research Design
Design of a research project, including the identification and operationalization of a research question and the collection and analysis of data.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 552 and consent of the Department.
Note: Normally offered during Spring Session.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Anthropology 563 H(3-0)(Area II)
Anthropology of Missions
Missionary endeavours, their interior logic, and their methodological and ethnographic contributions to anthropology.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 363 or consent of the Department.
Anthropology 567 H(3-1T)(Area II)
(Communications Studies 567)
Advanced Studies in Visual Culture
Advanced studies in visual communication with special attention to historical and theoretical aspects of visual practices. Students will explore diverse expressions of visuality and undertake applied visual research and production. Topics may include the social production of visual discourse, visual media and social change, visual anthropology, and strategies for visual research.
Prerequisites: Communications Studies 367 or Anthropology 411 or consent of the Faculty of Communication and Culture.
Anthropology 583 H(3-0) (Area II)
Applied Anthropology
Application of anthropological methods and perspectives in various social contexts.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 203 or consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Anthropology 589 H(3-0)(Area III)
(Archaeology 589)
Nutritional Anthropology
The study of human dietary practices from biological and cultural perspectives. Subjects covered include the development of nutritional anthropology, principles of nutrition, principles of ecology, diet from an evolutionary, comparative and historic perspective, the impact of undernutrition on human physiology, and behaviour and methods in nutritional anthropology.
Prerequisites: Anthropology 201 or 203 or Archaeology 305 or consent of the Department.
Graduate Courses
Only where appropriate to a student's program may graduate credit be received for courses numbered 500-599.
Anthropology 601 H(3-0)
Conference Course in Anthropology
A specialized area of Anthropology selected on the basis of particular interest and need.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Anthropology 603 H(3S-0)
Thesis Development
A reading and conference course in the student's substantive area conducted jointly by at least two faculty members.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Anthropology 605 H(3-0)
Professional Skills for Anthropologists
Training and practice in research/teaching skills: grantsmanship, conference and classroom presentations, academic publishing, job interviews.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
Note: Not open to students with credit in Anthropology 601.90 or the equivalent.
NOT INCLUDED IN GPA
Anthropology 609 H(3-0)
(Archaeology 609) (Geography 609)
Human Ecological Systems
The development of human ecology, its current directions and application of analytical techniques as they apply to anthropology, archaeology and geography.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
Anthropology 611 H(3-0)
Methods in Anthropological Research
A variety of topics relevant to research and the logic of inquiry in Anthropology.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
Anthropology 613 H(3-0)
Current Issues in Methodology in Primatology
A variety of topics relating to aspects of data collection and data analysis in primatology, with a focus on ecological and behavioural data.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Anthropology 635 H(3-0)
Primatological Theory
Seminar dealing with the theoretical material of primatological and biobehavioural perspectives in Anthropology.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
Anthropology 659 H(3-3)
Primatology
Specialized topics and laboratory training in this field will vary from year to year and may include: behavioural ecology, biomechanics, evolution, biosociality, and field methodology.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT