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This course explores Anthropological approaches to kinship and family arrangements. In addition to examining the range of forms that family arrangements can take cross-culturally, we also examine how kinship configurations have changed within our own society in recent years. Topics to be covered include trans-national adoption, "mail-order-brides", new reproductive technologies and internet dating.
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A critical probe of the origins, concepts, and practices of development in cultural perspective. Attention is paid to how forces of global capitalism intersect with local systems of knowledge and practice.
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This course examines how recent developments in biotechnology - cloning, the manufacture of genetically modified organisms, assisted reproduction technologies, and the mapping of the human genome, to name a few - are transforming our understanding of what it means to be human, including the relationship between human beings and other species.
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This course concentrates on field techniques in the study of non-human primates. Field work is two weeks within the semester. Daily routine: dawn to dusk; evening analyses; some free time. Evaluation: participation, preliminary research, field notes, log book and seminar or paper.
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Examines why, when, and how gender inequality became an anthropological concern by tracing the development of feminist thought in a comparative ethnographic framework.
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Complements and extends ANTC14H by exploring cultural constructions of male and female in a range of societies and institutions.
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The study of human origins in light of recent approaches surrounding human evolution. This course will examine some of these, particularly the process of speciation, with specific reference to the emergence of Homo. Fossils will be examined, but the emphasis will be on the interpretations of the process of hominisation through the thoughts and writings of major workers in the field.
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The study of human origins in light of recent approaches surrounding human evolution. New fossil finds present new approaches and theory. This course will examine some of these, particularly the process of speciation and hominisation with specific reference to the emergence of Homo. Labs permit contact with fossils in casts.
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Examines the social organization and cultural formations of groups in cities in comparative perspective, with special attention to innovative research bearing on urban governance, cultural diversity, and political contestations over urban space.
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This course examines economic arrangements from an anthropological perspective. A key insight to be examined concerns the idea that by engaging in specific acts of production, people produce themselves as particular kinds of human beings. Topics covered include gifts and commodities, consumption, global capitalism and the importance of objects as cultural mediators in colonial and post-colonial encounters.
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What limits exist or can be set to commoditized relations? To what extent can money be transformed into virtue, private goods into the public "Good"? We examine the anthropological literature on gift-giving, systems of exchange and value, and sacrifice. Students may conduct a short ethnographic project on money in our own society, a subject at once obvious and mysterious.
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This course examines the traditional cultures of Canadian native peoples through the media of archaeology, ethno-history and oral tradition. Questions to be considered involve: the nature and source of political authority, issues of self-government, and the balance between development and tradition in reserve and urban settings.
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This course examines contemporary issues which concern Canadian native peoples. Questions to be considered involve: the nature and source of political authority, the status and rights of women and off-reserve individuals, definition of educational systems, enforcement mechanisms and the rights of the individual and the band to personal and collective freedom.
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This course will review primate socio-sexual behaviour from an evolutionary perspective. Following a broad survey of mating patterns in the primate order, specific topics will be discussed, including male and female mating strategies, mate choice and sperm competition. Taxonomic groups of focus will include prosimians, monkeys, apes and humans.
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How are we to understand the relationship between psychic universals and diverse cultural and social forms in the constitution of human experience? Anthropology's dialogue with Freud; cultural construction and expression of emotions, personhood, and self.
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Introduces fundamental concepts of prehistoric archaeology in the New and Old Worlds, including dating methods, site survey, and excavation techniques.
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Introduces theoretical and methodological concepts in archaeology including questions related to reconstruction of prehistoric environments and the identification and explication of social/cultural system. It will also examine the role of archaeology in modern society through Culture Resource Management.
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Introduction and training in the methods and theory of archaeological fieldwork, including excavation, environmental evaluation, survey and mapping methods, and basic artifact identification and conservation. Special components on criteria relevant to the site including site history, soils and natural resources. This course takes place at an archaeological site, and it involves full-time excavation (all day, five days per week) over the full duration of the course.
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The nature and logic of ritual. Religious practices and projects; the interface of religion, power, morality, and history in the contemporary world.
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A general survey of the role of political systems in a largely "development" framework.
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Considers dimensions of transnationalism as a mode of human sociality and site for cultural production. Topics covered include transnational labour migration and labour circuits, the transnational dissemination of electronic imagery, emergence of transnational consumer publics, transnational movements by refugees and social movement activists, and border crossing by international NGOs.
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A consideration of quantitative data and analytical goals, especially in archaeology and physical anthropology. Some elementary computer programming, and a review of program packages suitable for anthropological analyses will be included.
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An examination of the biological, demographic, ecological and socio-cultural determinants of human and non-human population structure and the interrelationships among them. Lecture topics include population and societal strategies for survival and adaptation, population structure of small-scale and urban societies, and paleodemography and palaeopathology.
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An examination of the biological, demographic, ecological and socio-cultural determinants of human and non-human population structure and the interrelationships among them. Emphasis is given to constructing various demographic measures of mortality, fertility and immigration and their interpretation.
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Human adaptability refers to the human capacity to cope with a wide range of environmental conditions, including aspects of the physical environment like climate (extreme cold and heat), high altitude, geology, as well as aspects of the socio-cultural milieu, such as pathogens (disease), nutrition and malnutrition, migration, technology, and social change.
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