Courses

200 Level Courses (Introductory)

Course	Topic/Syllabus
ANTH 201. Introduction to Archaeology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Exploration of the definition of the discipline of archaeology and the ways that archaeologists reconstruct the past. Overview of goals, theories, research questions, and methods of anthropological archaeology. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH201 Syllabus
ANTH 202. Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025 View offerings for Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 203. Human Evolution. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An examination of evolutionary theory and the fossil and archaeological record for human origins, emphasizing the interaction between physical and cultural evolution. The use of primate behaviour in reconstructing early human behaviour. The origin and meaning of human variation. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 204. Anthropology of Meaning. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Through the analysis of language, symbols and cultural constructions of meaning, this course explores how people in different societies make sense of their world, and the ways in which they organise that knowledge, and how ideologies represent the different interests present in a society. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH204 Syllabus
ANTH 206. Environment and Culture. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 206 Syllabus
ANTH 207. Ethnography Through Film. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course will investigate and discuss cultural systems, patterns, and differences, and the ways in which they are observed, visually represented, and communicated by anthropologists using film and video. The visual representation of cultures will be critically evaluated by asking questions about perspective, authenticity, ethnographic authority and ethics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 209. Anthropology of Religion. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH209 Syllabus
ANTH 210. Archaeology of Early Cities. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the archaeology of early cities. Case studies include the cities of "great civilizations" (e.g. Egypt, Indus Valley, Inkan Empire), as well as the urban landscapes of lesser known societies, such as Great Zimbabwe in sub-Saharan Africa. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 210 Preliminary Syllabus
ANTH 212. Anthropology of Development. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH212 Syllabus
ANTH 222. Legal Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Exploration of dispute resolutions and means of social cohesion in various societies of the world. Themes: dichotomy between law and custom, local definitions of justice and rights, forms of conflict resolution, access to justice, gender and law, universality of human rights, legal pluralism. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH222 Syllabus
ANTH 227. Medical Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025 View offerings for Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 227 Syllabus

300 Level Courses (Intermediate)

Undergraduate Prerequisite: One anthropology course (see individual course listings in the McGill Calendar for the prerequisites associated with each course, if specified) or permission of instructor.

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ANTH 302. New Horizons in Medical Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Using recent ethnographies as textual material, this course will cover theoretical and methodological developments in medical anthropology since the early 1990's. Topics include a reconsideration of the relationship between culture and biology, medical pluralism revisited, globalization and health and disease, and social implications of new biomedical technologies. Winter Prerequisite: ANTH 227 Restriction: Anthropology program students. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH302 Syllabus
ANTH 303. Ethnographies of Post-socialism. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Understanding postsocialism through engagement with ethnography that explores how markets interact with political rule, social forms, and the production of cultural values across different geographies and histories. This course focuses primarily on the former Soviet Union, East Germany, and China. Winter Prerequisites: ANTH 202 and one other 200-level anthropology course, U2 standing or above, or permission of instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 304. Chinese Culture in Ethnography and Film. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Uses both ethnography and film to examine 20Ih century Chinese society and popular culture in the context of the revolution and its aftermath. Fall Prerequisites: ANTH 202 or ANTH 204 or ANTH 209 and another 200-level anthropology course, U2 standing or above, or permission of the instructor. Restriction: U2 standing or above. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH304 Syllabus
ANTH 307. Andean Prehistory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Questions related to social inequality, ritual practice, monumental space, and urban landscapes within the context of the Pre-Columbian Andes and sections on the Inkas, as well as earlier groups, such as the Nazca, Wari, Moche, Tiwanaku, and Chimu. Fall Prerequisites: ANTH 201 or ANTH 210 Restriction: Students must be U2 or U3 standing. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 307 Syllabus
ANTH 308. Political Anthropology 01. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The study of political systems and political processes. Conflict and its resolution. The emphasis of the course will be on local-level politics and non-industrial societies. Fall Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 212, or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH308 Syllabus
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ANTH 312. Zooarchaeology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2025 View offerings for Summer 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A systematic investigation into current methodological and theoretical concerns in archaeological faunal analysis. Topics to be examined include sampling and quantification, butchery, seasonality, subsistence, taphonomy, and paleoecology. Winter Prerequisites: ANTH 201 and Honours/Major status in Anthropology Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 312 Syllabus
ANTH 314. Psychological Anthropology 01. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of current theories and methods employed in psychological anthropology. Some areas considered are: cross-cultural studies of socialization and personality development; cultural factors in mental illness; individual adaptations to rapid socio-cultural change. Fall Prerequisite: Any Anthropology course Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 314 Syllabus
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ANTH 318. Globalization and Religion. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels. Winter Prerequisites: U2 standing or above and ANTH 209, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 355 or ANTH 352 or RELG 207 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH318 Syllabus
ANTH 319. Inka Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description In-depth study of material and symbolic manifestations of power and identity in the Pre-Columbian Inka state, drawing on both archaeological and ethnohistoric sources. Fall Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 202 or HISP 225 or permission of instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 322. Social Change in Modern Africa. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change. Fall Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 322 Syllabus
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ANTH 325. Anthropology of the Self. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A review of the anthropological problematization of the self. The course examines ethnographically how illness, mental illness, pharmaceuticals, psychoanalysis, possession, death, violence and colonization disrupt our commonsense notions of the self and its relation to the other. Prerequisite: ANTH 202 or ANTH 227 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 326. Anthropology of Latin America. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Central themes in the anthropology of Latin America, including colonialism, religiosity, sexuality and gender, indigeneity, social movements, and transnationalism. Fall Prerequisite: ANTH 202 or 204 or 205 or 206 or 212 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 327. Anthropology of South Asia. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization. Fall Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 330. Traditional Whaling Societies. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The investigation of similarities and diversity of prehistoric and historic small-scale whaling societies. Examples will be drawn from throughout the world, including, but not limited to, East Asia, Northwest Coast, Arctic, North Atlantic and Northern Europe societies. Winter Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 202 or ANTH 203 or permission of instructor Restriction: Restricted to Anthropology Honours, Major and Minor Program students Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH330 Syllabus
ANTH 331. Prehistory of East Asia. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Comparative study of prehistoric hunting and gathering cultures in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Eastern Siberia; origins and dispersal of food production; cultural processes leading to the rise of literate civilizations in certain regions of East Asia. Fall Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH331 Syllabus
ANTH 332. Mesoamerican Archaeology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Central themes in the archaeological study of ancient and colonial Mesoamerica, such as social identity, political economy, and cosmogony; peoples covered will include the Aztecs, Maya, Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, and others. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 332 Syllabus
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ANTH 338. Indigenous Studies of Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a means of critically engaging with the discipline of anthropology. Winter Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or permission of the instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 339. Ecological Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Intensive study of theories and cases in ecological anthropology. Theories are examined and tested through comparative case-study analysis. Cultural constructions of "nature" and "environment" are compared and analyzed. Systems of resource management and conflicts over the use of resources are studied in depth. Winter Prerequisite: ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or SOCI 328, or GEOG 300 or ENVR 201, or ENVR 203, or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH339 Syllabus
ANTH 340. Middle Eastern Society and Culture. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Exploration of daily life, culture and society in the Middle East, through examination of ethnographic accounts. Fall Prerequisites: U2 or U3 standing; and ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227, or permission of the instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 343. Anthropology and the Animal. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course explores through the ethnographic study of human-animal relations how the question of "the animal" helps us examine our central assumptions about what it means to be human. Prerequisite: One ANTH 200 level course or consent of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH343 Syllabus
ANTH 344. Quantitative Approaches to Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A non-statistics course designed to understand and critically evaluate quantitatively based arguments encountered in the literature of all branches of Anthropology. Fall Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 202 or ANTH 205 or permission of instructor. Restriction: Limited to students in Anthropology programs. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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350+ Level Courses (Core and Reading)

Course	Topic/Syllabus
ANTH 352. History of Anthropological Theory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Exploration in the history of anthropological theory; schools, controversies, intellectual history, sociology of knowledge. Fall Prerequisites: one 200-level anthropology course and one other anthropology course at any level Restriction: Honours, Joint Honours, Major and Minor students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 352 Syllabus
ANTH 355. Theories of Culture and Society. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Contributions to contemporary anthropological theory; theoretical paradigms and debates; forms of anthropological explanation; the role of theory in the practice of anthropology; concepts of society, culture and structure; cultural evolution and relativity; interpretive anthropology, post-modernism. Winter Prerequisites: one 200-level anthropology course and one other anthropology course at any level Restriction: Honours, Joint Honours, Major and Minor students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH355 Syllabus
ANTH 357. Archaeological Methods. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The collection of materials in field investigations and their analysis to yield cultural information. The processes of inference and reconstruction in archaeological interpretation. Fall Prerequisites: ANTH 201 and one other course in archaeology Restrictions: Honours, Joint Honours and Major students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 357 Outline
ANTH 358. The Process of Anthropological Research. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The nature of anthropological research as evidenced in monographs and articles; processes of concept formation and interpretation of data; the problem of objectivity. Fall Prerequisites: one 200-level anthropology course and one other anthropology course at any level Restrictions: Honours, Joint Honours, Major and Minor students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH358 Syllabus
ANTH 359. History of Archaeological Theory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A systematic investigation of the theories that have guided the interpretation of prehistoric archaeological data since the Middle Ages; the relationship between these theories and theoretical developments in the other social sciences. Winter Prerequisites: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203 or ANTH 210. Restriction(s): Students must be U2 or U3 standing. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH359 Syllabus
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ANTH 361. Archaeology of South Asia. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course explores the archaeology of South Asia from prehistoric through early historic times focusing on the region covered by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. We will investigate the shifting materiality of social landscapes, political, ritual and ecological practices. The course interrogates a number of anthropological themes including human evolution, social organization, food production, craft production, trade and exchange, the transition(s) to urbanism, the development of socio-political inequalities and institutions, regional and supra-regional polities and religious traditions. We will address some of the historiographical and epistemological problems with using archaeological data to produce narratives of South Asia’s past. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 210. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 370. Anthropology and the Image. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An introduction to the role of the image in everyday life as it is revealed ethnographically. Topics will include the role of the image in thinking, dreaming, knowing, feeling and acting. An investigation of the way images, of one sort or another, constitute the material out of which much anthropological analysis is built. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ANTH 380 when topic was “Anthropology and the Image”. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 370 Syllabus
ANTH 380. Special Topic 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Supervised reading in special topics under the direction of a member of the staff. Fall and/or Winter terms. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 380 Course Description
ANTH 381. Special Topic 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Supervised reading in special topics under the direction of a member of the staff. Fall and/or Winter terms. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 381 Syllabus
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400 Level Courses (Advanced)

Undergraduate Prerequisites: U2 anthropology students wishing to take advanced courses must see the course instructor. If the instructor is on leave, permission from the student's department advisor is required.
U3 anthropology students registering for advanced courses must have completed at least two core courses (350 level) and one 300 level anthropology course (which may or may not be specified in the course listing).
To enroll in any 480 or higher course, all available courses relevant to the chosen topic must be completed and the consent of the instructor, obtained. These are reading courses supervised by a member of the staff.

Course	Topic/Syllabus
ANTH 402. Topics in Ethnography. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An exploration of selected ethnographic case material. Investigation of a regional literature or survey of significant contributions to ethnography or examination of an ethnological issue. Fall Restriction: U3 students in Anthropology or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 403. Current Issues in Archaeology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Current issues in archaeological interpretation, in particular, those relating to processual and postprocessual archaeology. Winter Prerequisite: ANTH 357 or preferably ANTH 359, or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 407. Anthropology of the Body. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course will survey theoretical approaches used over the past 100 years, and then focus on contemporary debates using case studies. The nature/culture mind/ body, subject/object, self/other dichotomies central to most work of the body will be problematized. Winter Prerequisites: ANTH 227 and (1) 300-level anthropology course, and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Social Studies of Medicine, or permission of instructor. Restriction: U3 status or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2020 ANTH407 Syllabus
ANTH 408. Sensory Ethnography. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Anthropology of the senses through the study of ethnographic film, photography and sound. Topics include: the role of senses and emotion in the production of knowledge, non-word based ways of knowing, and the relation between image and text in anthropology. Prerequisite: U3 students in Anthropology or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH408 Syllabus
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ANTH 412. Topics: Anthropological Theory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A concentrated examination of selected theoretical literature. A current theoretical issue will be examined, or the work of a major anthropological theorist or school will be explored and assessed. Winter Restriction: U3 students in Anthropology and ANTH 355 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 412 Syllabus
ANTH 413. Gender in Archaeology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Relationship between the structure of the archaeological discipline and construction of gender roles in past human societies; division of tasks between men and women in subsistence activities, organization of the household and kin groups; and creation of power and prestige in a larger community. Fall Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 331 or ANTH 345 or ANTH 347 or ANTH 348 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 413 Syllabus
ANTH 416. Environment/Development: Africa. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Study of environmental effects of development in East Africa, especially due to changes in traditional land tenure and resource use across diverse ecosystems. Models, policies and cases of pastoralist, agricultural, fishing, wildlife and tourist development will be examined, across savanna, desert, forest, highland and coastal environments. Winter Restriction: Open only to students in the Study in Africa program, a full-term field study program in East Africa Prerequisite: One prior course in Anthropology, Geography or Environmental Studies Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 419. Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A systematic investigation into current theoretical and methodological concerns in hunter-gatherer archaeology. Examples will be drawn from around the world. Winter Prerequisite: ANTH 357 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 419 Syllabus
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ANTH 423. Mind, Brain and Psychopathology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Evolutionary origins of the human mind and the 'social brain', and the psychopathologies that are said to provide access to this evolutionary history, through the perspective of the anthropology of science and psychiatry. Fall Prerequisites: ANTH 227 and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Minor Concentration in Social Studies of Medicine or permission of instructor Restrictions: U3 students. Not open to students who have taken ANTH 443 under this topic. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH423 Syllabus
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ANTH 428. Saints and Mediation in Latin America. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course examines religion in Latin America by means of a focus on the cult of the saints, a phenomenon central to religious, cultural and social life across the continent and key to the endurance of the institutional Catholic Church. Material in the course addresses various interpretive frames (e.g., historical, political economic, psychoanalytic, semiotic) in exploring how worship of the saints has marked Latin American society and culture, shaping sensibilities, sociality, nationalism, race, class, gender, and sexuality. The course also enables a comprehensive examination of Catholicism as both 'lived religion' and as shaped by the institutional Catholic Church. Prerequisites: ANTH 326 OR ANTH 209 OR ANTH 204 OR ANTH 202 OR permission of the instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH428 Syllabus
ANTH 436. North American Native Peoples. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A detailed examination of selected contemporary problems. Winter Prerequisite: ANTH 338, or ANTH 336, or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 437. Historical Archaeology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Theory and methods of historical archaeology with a focus when possible on East Asia. Prerequisites: One 200-level course from both EAST and ANTH or permission of instructor Restrictions: U3 ANTH or EAST students only or permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 437. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 438. Topics in Medical Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Conceptions of health and illness and the form and meaning that illness take are reflections of a particular social and cultural context. Examination of the metaphoric use of the body, comparative approaches to healing, and the relationship of healing systems to the political and economic order and to development. Fall Prerequisite(s): ANTH 227 and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Minor Concentration in Social Studies of Medicine or permission of instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 438 Syllabus
ANTH 440. Cognitive Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The problem of knowledge; the nature of perception; the concept of mind; the relation between thought and language. The concept of meaning: communication, interpretation and symbolism. Social aspects of cognition; ideology. Fall Prerequisite, two of the following: ANTH 204, ANTH 314, ANTH 352, ANTH 355, or ANTH 430, or permission of instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 440 Syllabus
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ANTH 450. Archaeology of Landscape. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course investigates the application of landscape, together with other spatial concepts and a range of spatial analytical techniques in archaeological practice. We will interrogate the application of a range of theoretical approaches (phenomenological, semiotic, socio-evolutionary, socio-historical), and analytical techniques (regional survey, distributional mapping, spatial graphing, remote sensing, GIS) to archaeological investigations of past landscapes with particular attention to epistemological issues that articulate research problems with appropriate scales and strategies for analyzing and interpreting data. We will explore how a range of social practices produced multi-scalar landscapes, and how the active materiality of landscapes recursively created, maintained and contested social relations. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 357 and ANTH 359. Restriction(s): Open only to students who have earned a minimum of B- in the prerequisite course(s). Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH450 Syllabus
ANTH 451. Research in Society and Development in Africa. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Instruction focuses on three goals: 1) existing research in selected core thematic areas, 2) participating in interdisciplinary team research, 3) developing powers of observation and independent inquiry. Students will be expected to develop research activities and interdisciplinary perspectives, and to become conversant with advances in local research in their field. Winter Prerequisite: Open to U2 or later students in the AFSS. Corequisite: NRSC 452. Restriction: Open only to AFSS students during the year of participation in the field. Not open to students who have taken GEOG 451. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 480. Special Topic 5. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff. Prerequisite: Completion of all available courses relevant to the topic and consent of the instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH480 Syllabus
ANTH 481. Special Topic 6. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff. Prerequisite: Completion of all available courses relevant to the topic and consent of the instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 490. Honours Thesis. Credits: 6 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Supervised reading and preparation of a research report under the direction of a member of staff. Fall or Winter Term Prerequisites: U3 Honours status and permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 491. Joint Honours Thesis. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Supervised reading and preparation of a 3 credit honours thesis under the direction of a member of staff. Fall / Winter Prerequisites: U3 Honours status and permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 490D1. Honours Thesis. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Supervised reading and preparation of a research report under the direction of a member of staff. Students must register for both ANTH 490D1 and ANTH 490D2. No credit will be given for this course unless both ANTH 490D1 and ANTH 490D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms. ANTH 490D1 and ANTH 490D2 together are equivalent to ANTH 490. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 490D2. Honours Thesis. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description see ANTH 490D1. Prerequisite: ANTH 490D1. No credit will be given for this course unless both ANTH 490D1 and ANTH 490D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms ANTH 490D1 and ANTH 490D2 together are equivalent to ANTH 490. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 499. Internship: Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Internship with an approved host institution or organization. Fall and Winter Prerequisite: Permission of the departmental Internship Advisor. Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students normally after completing 30 credits of a 90 credit degree program or 45 credits of a 69-120 credit program, a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission of the departmental Internship Advisor. This course will normally not fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400- level courses. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder

500 Level Courses (Advanced)

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ANTH 500. Chinese Diversity and Diaspora. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures. Winter Restrictions: Reserved for U3 Anthropology undergraduate students or graduate students, any other students by permission of instructor. Enrolment Limit: 25 students. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 501. Anthropology Beyond the Human. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A theoretical framework for the anthropological understanding of how humans relate to nonhuman worlds that exist beyond social, cultural, and linguistic realms. Prerequisite: U3 Anthropology students only or permission of the instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 501 Syllabus
ANTH 502. Social Life of Death. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Theoretical and methodological approaches of attitudes, beliefs, and ritual practices surrounding death and mortuary practices. Topics covered include material manifestations of status and identity; symbolic dimensions of dead bodies; ancestors, kinship, and kingship; emotions, mourning, and memory; and ritual violence. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 503. Production of the Past. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The study of the past in cultural anthropology. Representations of the past, colonialism, nationalism, heritage, dominant and subaltern narratives. Silences and violence in the making of the past. Fall Prerequisite(s): U3 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 505. Current Advances in Archaeological Theory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Seminar course covering recent (1980s-present) developments in the theories that guide archaeological research questions and interpretation, especially as they relate to the social, material, and postcolonial turns in the humanities and social sciences. Prerequisite(s): For undergraduate students: Anth 359. For graduate students: No prerequisite. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH505 Syllabus
ANTH 504. Environmental Archaeology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Study of long-term relationships between humans and their environments based on empirical evidence. Topics include review of methodological tools in paleoecological reconstruction, and approaches to evaluating human-environment relationships. Examples will be drawn from various subfields, including, but not limited to, settlement archaeology, human ecology, and landscape archaeology. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201, ANTH 357 Restriction(s): Anthropology major or honours PLUS permission of instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 510. Advanced Problems in Anthropology of Religion. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This research seminar helps students to develop indepth knowledge in contemporary problems in the anthropology of religion. Topics may include secularism; religious freedom; gender, sexuality and religion; politics of religious law. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 209 or another instructor-approved introduction to the anthropology of religion and either ANTH 352 or ANTH 355. Restriction(s): U3 students or graduate students only or with permission of instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 510 Announcement
ANTH 511. Computational Approaches to Prehistory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Covers the application of computational methods to archaeological problems and the modeling and simulation of prehistoric populations. Winter Prerequisites: ANTH 357 or ANTH 359. Restriction: Restricted to U3 and graduate students in the Anthropology Department. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 512. Political Ecology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 513. The Poetry of Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The seminar addresses the relationship between poetry and anthropology. Considering both the anthropological study of poetry and the poetic dimension of anthropology, the course examines questions of affect, image, language and media but also of narrative, history and politics. Bringing together several domains of anthropological research and theory, the seminar conceives anthropology as a terrain in which social science and poetry cannot be thought apart. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 513 Syllabus
ANTH 515. The Archaeology of Politics. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course explores how archaeologists investigate past political life using theoretical approaches, archaeological methods and data sets. It examines how modalities of power and political practices articulated and organized social relations at multiple scales and contexts ranging from the institutional (e.g., states, governments, guilds, religious orders) to those of everyday life (e.g., diet, residence, gender). The course interrogates the history of archaeology’s engagement with past politics together with current topical foci such as the politics of ritual, identity, and gender, resistance to authority, production and consumption practices, commensal politics, landscape production, the materiality of politics and the politics of materials. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 359 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 540. Topics in Anthropological Theory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Examination and discussion of topics of current theoretical interest. Fall Restriction: This course is restricted to U3 Honours students in the Anthropology Department or with permission of the instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2021 ANTH 540 Syllabus
ANTH 551. Advanced Topics: Archaeological Research. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Examination and discussion of topics of current theoretical or methodological interest in archaeology. Topics will be announced at the beginning of term. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 555. Advanced Topics in Ethnology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Examination and discussion of topics of current theoretical or methodological interest in ethnology. Topics will be announced at the beginning of term. Winter Restriction: Honours students at the U3 level in the Anthropology Department or with permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH555 Syllabus
ANTH 575. Concepts of Race. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Examination of the evolution of the idea of race within anthropology, and the impact which the discipline's debates have had on society. Winter Prerequisites: ANTH 201, or ANTH 202, or ANTH 203, and ANTH 352 or ANTH 359. Restriction: U3 students and graduate students in Anthropology programs. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder

600 Level Courses (Graduate)

Note for Undergraduates: Honours Thesis courses are not open to Joint Honours students. Students in Joint Honours should take 400 level "Special Topics" courses (3 credits each) for the thesis in consecutive terms, one in Anthropology and the other in the joint department.

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ANTH 602. Theory 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of theories and methods employed in anthropology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 602 Syllabus
ANTH 603. Theory 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of theories and methods employed in anthropology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Winter 2021 ANTH603 Syllabus
ANTH 605. Archaeological Research Design Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The development and design of archaeological research and the role of a multi-faceted archaeological epistemology in the construction and substantiation of historical inferences involving archaeological data; how archaeologists frame their research with theory and deploy appropriate methods to explore archaeological data sets to address anthropological and historical problems located in the past; exploration of important intersections of archaeological data with textual, ethnographic, and community knowledge data (oral history, traditional ecological knowledge) in research design. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 611. Research Design. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Research design in anthropology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 611 Syllabus
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ANTH 615. Seminar in Medical Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Overview of the theories and methods of contemporary medical anthropology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	Fall 2020 ANTH 615 Syllabus
ANTH 616. Political Anthropology 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The study of political systems and political processes. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 634. Anthropology of Development 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Critical assessment of the institutions, discourses and processes of social change associated with notions of "development", with special emphasis on small communities in the "developing world", and unindustrialized parts of "developed" countries. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 640. Psychological Anthropology 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Overview of the theories and methods of contemporary psychological anthropology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder	WInter 2021 ANTH640 Syllabus
ANTH 645. Anthropology, Mind and Brain. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Evolutionary origins of the human mind and the epistemic cultures of science and psychiatry through which the mind, its brain, and its evolutionary history are currently understood. Orientation is to be the perspective of anthropology and social studies of science. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
ANTH 648. Structural Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Review of structural anthropology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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ANTH 670. Archaeological Theory 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Survey of theories and methods employed in the practive of contemporary archaeology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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200 Level Courses (Introductory)

ANTH 201. Introduction to Archaeology.

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ANTH 202. Socio-Cultural Anthropology.

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ANTH 203. Human Evolution.

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ANTH 204. Anthropology of Meaning.

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ANTH 206. Environment and Culture.

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ANTH 207. Ethnography Through Film.

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ANTH 209. Anthropology of Religion.

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ANTH 210. Archaeology of Early Cities.

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ANTH 212. Anthropology of Development.

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ANTH 222. Legal Anthropology.

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ANTH 227. Medical Anthropology.

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300 Level Courses (Intermediate)

ANTH 302. New Horizons in Medical Anthropology.

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ANTH 303. Ethnographies of Post-socialism.

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ANTH 304. Chinese Culture in Ethnography and Film.

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ANTH 307. Andean Prehistory.

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ANTH 308. Political Anthropology 01.

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ANTH 312. Zooarchaeology.

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ANTH 314. Psychological Anthropology 01.

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ANTH 318. Globalization and Religion.

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ANTH 319. Inka Archaeology and Ethnohistory.

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ANTH 322. Social Change in Modern Africa.

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ANTH 325. Anthropology of the Self.

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ANTH 326. Anthropology of Latin America.

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ANTH 327. Anthropology of South Asia.

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ANTH 330. Traditional Whaling Societies.

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ANTH 331. Prehistory of East Asia.

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ANTH 332. Mesoamerican Archaeology.

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ANTH 338. Indigenous Studies of Anthropology.

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ANTH 339. Ecological Anthropology.

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ANTH 340. Middle Eastern Society and Culture.

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ANTH 343. Anthropology and the Animal.

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ANTH 344. Quantitative Approaches to Anthropology.

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350+ Level Courses (Core and Reading)

ANTH 352. History of Anthropological Theory.

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ANTH 355. Theories of Culture and Society.

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ANTH 357. Archaeological Methods.

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ANTH 358. The Process of Anthropological Research.

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ANTH 359. History of Archaeological Theory.

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ANTH 361. Archaeology of South Asia.