Topics may include questioning fieldwork, origins and legacies of functionalism, cultural materialism, politics of culture, power and political economy, globalization and post modernism, gender and post-structuralism.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science courseA detailed review of human dietary adaptations, subsistence strategies and the suite of cognitive, cultural and life history traits that make humans so adaptable.
We consider the relevance of cultural meanings to biomedical practices, the centrality of the body to consumer techno-society, and the body’s role as a locus of experience, political inscription, and struggle.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science courseThis course addresses reading ethnography as a tool to understand compressed and complex modernity such as Korean societies, both in and outside of the Korean peninsula. Detailed course outlines, which may list textbooks and grade distribution for each course, are available for most courses in the Undergraduate Office in the Anthropology Department, Anthropology Building, 19 Russell Street, Room 258 in late August of each year, or at the first course lecture. The evolution of hominin physical behaviours, such as bipedalism and tool use, will be explored alongside the morphological traits associated with these behaviours. From early colonial periods and the imagination of boundaries-drawing creatures (such as monsters and strangers), borders have been at the core of making and unmaking the permeability and impermeability of spaces and materialities, nations, communities, people and bodies. Students will learn to interpret their own observational experiences with reference to relevant anthropological and other analytical frameworks.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science courseThe course explores ideas of intellectuals who carved transformative theories during war times or under repressive regimes in the twentieth century.
Yet, in the public imaginary it is still consistently thought of as a unit. We will critically examine international law and policy that purports to protect the environment paying particular attention to the question of how and why environmental issues have entered the global political arena. It also engages with studies in the anthropology of popular and transnational religion, and the politics of religious movements.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science courseIt is widely acknowledged that sharp disparities in disease burden and access to medical care characterize global patterns in health. We have compiled a list of the easiest courses offered at University of Toronto! Please explore the links below:Amanda Harvey-Sanchez, a Specialist in Anthropology (Society, Culture, Language), is the 2018 recipient of the ANT 1096H. An important goal of the seminar is to introduce students to social theories on the inherent materiality of ritual performance, whether orchestrated in everyday practice or in elaborate religious and political spectacles.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science courseCurrent research in Palaeolithic Archaeology reflecting emerging issues.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science courseHow social complexity is manifested in the archaeological record. The focus is on developing the capacity to discern orderliness in the details of everyday interaction, and beginning independent research in this area.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science courseAn introduction to some of the principal questions of feminist theory, as viewed from sociolinguistics. Moreover, Muslim majority MENA countries exhibit considerable social and sectarian diversity. In conceptualising this relationship, we focus on critical analysis of the role of biomedical health-care systems in settler-colonial governmentality, and how history is understood in discourses on Indigenous health.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science courseThis course introduces perspectives which extend anthropological inquiry beyond the solely human realm.
The lectures will also provide a basic introduction to computer database theory in the context of archaeological data.
It also takes account of the motivations and social milieux of early theorists who rarely, if ever, came in contact with the exotic “other” they studied; and it touches on the radical critique of their theories including Lévi-Strauss’ structuralism and influential “afterologies” like deconstruction, post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis and Foucauldian philosophy.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science courseHow do the imagined worlds of speculative fiction reflect, and reflect upon, the real worlds of their authors and audiences?