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Welcome to the Anthropology department of the University of Waterloo. On these pages you can find out about our department, about the features and requirements of our undergraduate program, our graduate program, and links that will allow you to learn more about Anthropology.

2010 Undergraduate Honours Thesis Presentations

 

Wednesday, March 24th, 3:30 - 4:00 pm in PAS 2030:

Brittany Hart, “What's in a Name? Debitage by any Other Name: An Investigation of the Late Prehistoric Iroquoian Coleman Site (AiHd-7), New Dundee, Ontario”

Wednesday, March 24th, 4 - 4:30 pm in PAS 2030:

Erika Stolfa, “Maintaining Identity Through Telenovelas in Diaspora Communities”

Wednesday, March 31st, 3:30 - 4 pm in PAS 2030:

Leena Miller, "Embodying Yoga: Experiences and Interpre-tations of a Transformative Practice"

Wednesday, March 31st, 4 - 4:30 pm in PAS 2030:

Mimi Hollinger-Janzen, "Do You Speak African?: Auto-ethnographic Reflections on Growing up in Benin"

ALL WELCOME

(and ANTH majors strongly encouraged to attend)

Job Posting:

Assistant Professor –Definite Term Position

The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a 2-year definite term appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing September 1, 2010.

The candidate should be prepared to teach courses in indigenous peoples in Canada and elsewhere, religion and spirituality, and other topics in cultural anthropology.

Preference will be given to candidates with a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, teaching experience, and an ongoing research program.  The department has a flourishing undergraduate program and a joint M.A. Program in Public Issues Anthropology with the University of Guelph and the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the graduate program.  Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Please send curriculum vitae, the names and contact information for three referees, evidence of teaching quality and a sample paper or publication to:

Professor Harriet Lyons, Chair,

Department of Anthropology

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada 

Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be submitted to hlyons@uwaterloo.ca and copied to our departmental administrator, Allyson Rowat (arowat@uwaterloo.ca). 

The closing date for receipt of applications is June 5, 2010.   

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples and persons with disabilities.

 

From A.L. Kroeber (1948) "Anthropology" p. 11. Harcourt and Brace, New York.:

 

Of all the social sciences, anthropology is perhaps the most distinctively culture-conscious. It aims to investigate human culture as such: at all times, everywhere, in all its parts and aspects and workings. It looks for generalized findings as to how culture operates—literally, how human beings behave under given cultural conditions—and for the major developments of the history of culture. …Now while some of the interest of anthropology in its earlier stages was in the exotic and the out-of-the-way, yet even this antiquarian motivation ultimately contributed to a broader result. Anthropologists became aware of the diversity of culture. They began to see the tremendous range of its variations. From that, they commenced to envisage it as a totality, as no historian of one period or of a single people was ever likely to do, nor any analyst of his own type of civilization alone. They became aware of culture as a "universe," or vast field, in which we of today and our own civilization occupy only one place of many. The result was a widening of a fundamental point of view, a departure from unconscious ethnocentricity toward relativity. This shift from naïve self-centeredness in one's own time and spot to a broader view based on objective comparison is somewhat like the change from the original geocentric assumption of astronomy to the Copernican interpretation of the solar system and the subsequent still greater widening to a universe of galaxies.