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ANTC10H3 - Anthropological Perspectives on Development

A critical probe of the origins, concepts, and practices of regional and international development in cultural perspective. Attention is paid to how forces of global capitalism intersect with local systems of knowledge and practice.

Prerequisite: ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3
Enrolment Limits: 60
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC12H3 - Culture and Society in Contemporary South Asia

This course surveys central issues in the ethnographic study of contemporary South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). Students will engage with classical and recent ethnographies to critically examine key thematic fault lines within national imaginations, especially along the lines of religion, caste, gender, ethnicity, and language. Not only does the course demonstrate how these fault lines continually shape the nature of nationalism, state institutions, development, social movements, violence, and militarism across the colonial and post-colonial periods but also, demonstrates how anthropological knowledge and ethnography provide us with a critical lens for exploring the most pressing issues facing South Asia in the world today.

Same as GASC12H3

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3, or permission of the instructor] or [Any 4.0 credits, including 0.5 credit at the A- or B-level in GAS or Africa and Asia Area HIS courses]
Exclusion: GASC12H3
Enrolment Limits: 80
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC14H3 - Feminism and Anthropology

Examines why, when, and how gender inequality became an anthropological concern by tracing the development of feminist thought in a comparative ethnographic framework.

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or [1.0 credit at the B-level in WST courses]
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC15H3 - Genders and Sexualities

Explores cultural constructions of male and female in a range of societies and institutions. Also examines non-binary gender configurations.

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or [1.0 credit at the B-level in WST courses]
Recommended Preparation: ANTC14H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC16H3 - The Foundation and Theory of Human Origins

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.
Science credit

Prerequisite: ANTA01H3 or ANTB14H3 or ANTC17H3
Exclusion: (ANT332Y)
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

ANTC17H3 - Human Origins: New Discoveries

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.
Science credit

Prerequisite: ANTA01H3 and ANTA02H3
Exclusion: (ANT332Y)
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

ANTC18H3 - Urban Worlds

The planet today is more urbanized than at any other moment in its history. What are the tools we need to examine urbanization in this contemporary moment? This course explores how urbanization has altered everyday life for individuals and communities across the globe. Students will trace urbanization as transformative of environmental conditions, economic activities, social relations, and political life. Students will thus engage with work on urbanization to examine how urban spaces and environments come to be differentiated along the lines of race, class, and gender. Not only does this course demonstrate how such fault lines play themselves out across contexts, but also provides the critical lenses necessary to tackle the most pressing issues related to urbanization today.

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or [1.5 credits at the B-level in CIT courses]
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC19H3 - Producing People and Things: Economics and Social Life

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.

Prerequisite: ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC20H3 - Gifts, Money and Morality

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, an object at once obvious and mysterious.

Prerequisite: ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC22H3 - Education, Power, and Potential: Anthropological Perspectives and Ethnographic Insights

What does it mean to get an education? What are the consequences of getting (or not getting) a “good education”? For whom? Who decides? Why does it matter? How are different kinds of education oriented toward different visions of the future? What might we learn about a particular cultural context if we explore education and learning as social processes and cultural products linked to specific cultural values, beliefs, and power dynamics? These are just some of the questions we will explore in this course. Overall, students will gain a familiarity with the anthropology of education through an exploration of ethnographic case studies from a variety of historical and cultural contexts.

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3]
Corequisite: None
Exclusion: A version of this course was taught as a special topics course in Fall 2021; therefore, students who took ANTC88 in Fall 2021 should be excluded.
Recommended Preparation: None
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Note: Priority will be given to students enrolled in any of the following Combined Degree Programs: Evolutionary Anthropology (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching Evolutionary Anthropology (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching Socio-Cultural Anthropology (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching Socio-Cultural Anthropology (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching

ANTC24H3 - Culture, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry

Does schizophrenia exist all over the world?  Does depression look different in China than it does in Canada?  By examining how local understandings of mental illness come into contact with Western psychiatric models, this course considers the role of culture in the experience, expression, definition, and treatment of mental illness and questions the universality of Western psychiatric categories. 

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or HLTB42H3
Recommended Preparation: ANTC61H3
Enrolment Limits: 60
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC25H3 - Anthropology and Psychology

How are we to understand the relationship between psychological 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.

Prerequisite: ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC27H3 - Primate Sociality

Primates are an intensely social order of animals showing wide variation in group size, organization and structure. Using an evolutionary perspective, this course will focus on why primates form groups and how their relationships with different individuals are maintained, with reference to other orders of animals. The form and function of different social systems, mating systems, and behaviours will be examined.

Prerequisite: ANTB22H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

ANTC30H3 - Themes in Global Archaeology

Intensive survey of a particular world region or current theme in archaeological research. Topic will change year to year.

Prerequisite: ANTA01H3 and [ANTB11H3 or ANTB80H3
Corequisite: None
Exclusion: None
Recommended Preparation: None
Enrolment Limits: None
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Note: None

ANTC31H3 - Ritual and Religious Action

The nature and logic of ritual. Religious practices and projects; the interface of religion, power, morality, and history in the contemporary world.

Prerequisite: ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC32H3 - Political Anthropology

Can ethnographic research help us make sense of various political situations and conflicts around the world? In this course we will review different approaches to power and politics in classical and current anthropology. We will consider notions of the state, political agency and power, civil society, authoritarianism and democracy.

Prerequisite: ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC33H3 - Of Gods and Humans: Anthropological Approaches to Religion

Anthropological approaches to the origin and function of religion, and the nature of symbolism, myth, ritual, sorcery, spirit possession, and cosmology, with primary reference to the religious worlds of small-scale societies.

Prerequisite: ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3
Exclusion: (ANTB30H3)
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC34H3 - The Anthropology of Transnationalism

This course considers dimensions of transnationalism as a mode of human sociality and site for cultural production. Topics covered include transnational labour migration and labour circuits, return migration, the transnational dissemination of electronic imagery, the emergence of transnational consumer publics, and the transnational movements of refugees, kinship networks, informal traders and religions.

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or [any 8.0 credits in ANT, HLT, IDS, CIT, GGR, POL, SOC or HCS courses]
Enrolment Limits: 60
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

ANTC35H3 - Quantitative Methods in Anthropology

A consideration of quantitative data and analytical goals, especially in archaeology and biological anthropology. Some elementary computer programming, and a review of program packages suitable for anthropological analyses will be included.
Science credit

Prerequisite: ANTA01H3 and ANTA02H3
Exclusion: MGEB11H3/(ECMB11H3), PSYB07H3, (SOCB06H3), STAB22H3
Recommended Preparation: ANTB15H3
Breadth Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning

ANTC40H3 - Methods and Analysis in Anthropological Demography

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.
Science credit

Prerequisite: ANTB14H3 and ANTB15H3 and [any statistics course]
Breadth Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning

ANTC41H3 - Environmental Stress, Culture and Human Adaptability

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.
Science credit

Prerequisite: [ANTB14H3 and ANTB15H3] or [BIOA01H3 and BIOA02H3]
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

ANTC42H3 - Human Growth, Development and Adaptability

Human adaptability refers to the human capacity to cope with a wide range of environmental conditions. Emphasis is placed on human growth and development in stressed and non-stressed environments. Case studies are used extensively.
Science credit

Prerequisite: ANTC41H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

ANTC44H3 - Amazonian Anthropology

This seminar explores anthropological insights and historical/archeological debates emerging from Amazonia, a hotspot of social and biodiversity currently under grave threat. We will look at current trends in the region, the cultural logic behind deforestation and land-grabbing, and the cultural and intellectual production of indigenous, ribeirinho, and quilombola inhabitants of the region.

Prerequisite: ANTB19H3 and [ANTB20H3 or ANTB01H3 or ESTB01H3]
Corequisite: None
Exclusion: None
Recommended Preparation: None
Enrolment Limits: None
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Note: None

ANTC47H3 - Human and Primate Comparative Osteology

A "hands-on" Laboratory course which introduces students to analyzing human and nonhuman primate skeletal remains using a comparative framework. The course will cover the gross anatomy of the skeleton and dentition, as well as the composition and microstructure of bone and teeth. The evolutionary history and processes associated with observed differences in human and primate anatomy will be discussed.
Science credit

Prerequisite: ANTB14H3
Exclusion: ANT334H, ANT334Y
Enrolment Limits: 33
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

ANTC48H3 - Advanced Topics In Human Osteology

A "hands-on" laboratory course which introduces students to the methods of analyzing human skeletal remains. Topics and analytic methods include: (1) the recovery and treatment of skeletal remains from archaeological sites; (2) odontological description, including dental pathology; (3) osteometric description; (4) nonmetric trait description; (5) methods of estimating age at death and sex; (6) quantitative analysis of metric and nonmetric data; and (7) paleopathology.
Science credit

Prerequisite: ANTC47H3
Exclusion: ANT334H, ANT334Y
Enrolment Limits: 33
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

ANTC52H3 - Global Politics of Language

Language and ways of speaking are foundational to political cultures. This course covers the politics of language in the age of globalization, including multiculturalism and immigration, citizenship, race and ethnicity, post-colonialism, and indigeneity. Ethnographic examples are drawn from a variety of contexts, including Canadian official bilingualism and First Nations.

Prerequisite: ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3
Enrolment Limits: 60
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ANTC53H3 - Anthropology of Media and Publics

How do media work to circulate texts, images, and stories? Do media create unified publics? How is the communicative process of media culturally-distinct? This course examines how anthropologists have studied communication that occurs through traditional and new media. Ethnographic examples drawn from several contexts.
Same as MDSC53H3

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or [MDSA01H3 and MDSB05H3]
Exclusion: MDSC53H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ANTC58H3 - Constructing the Other: Orientalism through Time and Place

This course reflects on the concept of Orientalism and how it informs the fields of Classical Studies and Anthropology. Topics to be discussed include the Orientalization of the past and the origin, role, and significance of ancient representations of the "Other" in contemporary discourses.
Same as CLAC68H3 and HISC68H3

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit from the following: [CLAA04H3/HISA07H3, CLAB05H3/HISB10H3, CLAB06H3/HISB11H3, ANTA02H3, ANTB19H3, ANTB20H3, HISB02H3, AFSB50H3/HISB50H3, AFSB51H3/HISB51H3, HISB53H3, HISB57H3, HISB58H3, HISB60H3, HISB61H3, HISB62H3, HISB93H3, HISB94H3]
Exclusion: CLAC68H3, HISC68H3
Enrolment Limits: 40
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

ANTC59H3 - Anthropology of Language and Media

Anthropology studies language and media in ways that show the impact of cultural context. This course introduces this approach and also considers the role of language and media with respect to intersecting themes: ritual, religion, gender, race/ethnicity, power, nationalism, and globalization. Class assignments deal with lecturers, readings, and students' examples.
Same as MDSC21H3

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or [MDSA01H3 and MDSB05H3]
Exclusion: (ANTB21H3), (MDSB02H3), MDSC21H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ANTC61H3 - Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective

Social and symbolic aspects of the body, the life-cycle, the representation and popular explanation of illness, the logic of traditional healing systems, the culture of North American illness and biomedicine, mental illness, social roots of disease, innovations in health care delivery systems.

Prerequisite: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or HLTB42H3
Enrolment Limits: 60
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences