An overview of issues concerning hunter-gatherers from both an archaeological and ethnographic perspective. Topics include: the usefulness of the...
An introduction to the range of information about past human groups gleaned from the animal remains. Lectures will cover various topics in...
An introduction to current theoretical and methodological issues in bioarchaeology. Use of ancient human, animal, and plant tissues to reconstruct...
This course examines how archaeologists interpret the archaeological record dating from European colonial expansion to the emergence of modern...
Representations of the First Nations, particularly by First Nations writers and artists. Folklore, art, oral tradition, fiction, poetry and drama...
An advanced, hands-on introduction to the practice of field archaeology. Students will participate in intensive, problem-oriented, research...
This course offers students the opportunity to study current issues in environmental anthropology through participation in extended fieldtrips and...
Individual reading and research of current interest in Anthropology. It is up to the student to make arrangements with a Professor in the Department...
Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department. Antirequisite(s): Prerequisite(s):...
Special topics of interest in Anthropology. List of special topics available in the Anthropology Department. Antirequisite(s): Prerequisite(s):...
This course examines how various stages in the human lifecourse are understood and experienced differently in diverse socio-cultural contexts. It...
Explores Anthropological theories and analyses of symbol systems. Frameworks examined include among others; structuralism, theory of metaphor, textual...
This course will combine general principles of vertebrate paleontology and evolutionary biology to examine the fossil evidence for primate and human...
This course provides an introduction to comparative linguistics. Issues to be discussed will include the study of historical relationships,...
This course provides an overview of the fossil evidence for human evolution as a background for the critical examination of controversies in the...
An investigation of the interrelationship between language and social structure with particular attention to linguistic differentiation on this basis...
An exploration of the role that skeletal material plays in providing anthropological information. Emphasis will be placed on the analytical techniques...
The role of bioanthropology in the genesis of the emerging field of evolutionary medicine is explored. We examine the natural history of the diseases...
An examination of cultural attitudes to diet and subsistence and their effects on human biology in both ancient and modern contexts. Areas to be...
Determining genetic relationships between and within past populations is at the genesis of bioanthropology. This course provides an overview of the...