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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Molecular Anthropology

Survey of molecular anthropology, a subdiscipline of anthropology that attempts to understand human evolution and the variation observed in our species using molecular information. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Laboratory Methods in Biological Anthropology

Recommended for those who may specialize in biological anthropology. Students will be introduced to the process of conducting research, including selected laboratory procedures and how they are used to generate and/or analyze data. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Human Adaptation through Biological and Cultural Means

How the body adapts to differing physical environments and how behaviour has expanded the range of human adaptation, in sensing, perceiving and interpreting the environment, through cultural means. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Osteological Theory

Survey of palaeodemography, palaeopathology, palaeonutrition, and techniques of recovering, perserving and recording human remains. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Globalization and the Changing World of Work

The course uses ethnographic material to examine ways in which global forces have changed the nature of work in different sites since World War Two -- North America, Europe, and the countries of the South are selectively included. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Money, Markets, Gifts: Topics in Economic Anthropology

Sociocultural anthropology has, since its inception, questioned the assumption that "the economy" ought to be understood as a domain distinguishable from other fields of human interaction, such as religion and kinship, or from power, politics, affect, and morality. This class offers a set of introductory readings that range from the analysis of non-Western forms of exchange and value to the study of capitalism; from stock-markets to the anti-globalization movement. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Power, Authority, and Legitimacy: Topics in Political Anthropology

This course explores ethnographically the social and cultural practices through which the exercise of power is legitimized, authorized, and contested, examining such topics as nation-building, non-governmental activism, human rights, and the global "war on terror." [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Ethnographic Field Methods

Recommended for those who may specialize in Anthropology. Oriented around student projects; covers multiple aspects of field and research methodology (problem design, interviewing, record-keeping, etc.). [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Anthropology of Religion

This course considers anthropological approaches to western and non-western religions and religious phenomena, challenging the idea that modernity leads to secularization. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Anthropology of Sub-Saharan Africa

This course considers anthropological approaches to contemporary issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Language in Culture and Society

Main currents in anthropological thinking about language and social interaction. It aims to introduce students to representative writings and ways for working. Lectures will work through main figures and schools with emphasis on explaining technical concepts and analytic paradigms. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Magic, Witchcraft and Science

This course will explore anthropological approaches to "magic," "witchcraft" and "science." It raises basic questions about the nature of knowledge, what we can know about the world, and how we know it. Overall, the course seeks to explore the differences and similarities between magic and science, belief and truth, subjectivity and objectivity, irrationality and rationality. Is witchcraft just a form of science? Or science a form of magic and witchcraft? How do we know? [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Lab in Social Interaction

This course will give students hands-on experience in linguistic anthropology. Students will learn to collect data through the use of video or audio recordings and transcribe it using standard notational techniques. Students will be expected to develop their own analyses of the data collected under the guidance on the instructor. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Semiotic Anthropology

This course serves as a reading intensive seminar-style introduction to the concerns of symbolic or semiotic anthropology. Readings in cultural theory and ethnography will be used to engage with questions regarding the construction of meaning in relation to ethnic identity, social structure, gender, political economy, personhood, and religion. Drawing on classic texts on ritual and myth, students will be encouraged to apply the lens of symbolic analysis to interpret contemporary social formations. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - World Religions and Ecology

A study of the reponses of selected world religious traditions to the emergence of global ecological concerns. Key concepts and tenets of the traditions and their relevance for examination of the environment crisis. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Religious Violence and Nonviolence

Religious violence and nonviolence as they emerge in the tension between strict adherence to tradition and individual actions of charismatic figures. The place of violence and nonviolence in selected faith traditions. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Independent Study

Supervised reading in selected anthropological topics.
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Independent Reading

Supervised reading in selected anthropological topics.
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Research Opportunity Program

This course provides senior undergraduate students who have developed some knowledge of a discipline and its research methods an opportunity to work in the research project of a professor in return for course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Partcipating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early March.
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Vocal and Visual Communication

Major approaches to the study of visual communication are studied. Bodies of visual materials, both documentary and commercial, are analyzed in terms of social and cultural contexts. Student projects may involve the use of still, movie, video filming and archival sources. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - People and Plants in Prehistory

The examination of plant remains from archaeological sites addresses many issues, some of which include environmental interaction, plant domestication, and early plant use. Students will learn plant remains identification and interpretation skills through a combination of laboratory and seminar sessions. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Faunal Archaeo-Osteology

Examination and interpretation of faunal material from archaeological sites, to obtain cultural information regarding the site occupants. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Advanced Archaeological Analysis

This course will involve students in applied laboratory methods in archaeology. Each student will engage in an individual research project on an archaeological data set. Techniques will include basic description, measurement, quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis. The primary focus will be ceramic and lithic analysis. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Advanced Archaeological Fieldwork

Fieldwork and analysis of artifacts. [
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University of Toronto, Mississauga - Special Problems in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology

Supervised independent research in Biological Anthropology or Archaeology for students requiring science credit.
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