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SYLLABUS
Paper 1
SECTION I:Foundation of Anthropology:
1.MeaningandscopeofAnthropologyanditsmainbranches
Socialandculturalanthropology
PhysicalAnthropology
ArchaeologicalAnthropology
LinguisticAnthropology
AppliedAnthropology
2.CommunityandSocietyInstitutions,groupandassociationcultureandcivilization
bandandtribe.
3.Marriage: The problems of universal definition incest and prohibited categories
preferentialformsofmarriagemarriagepaymentsthefamilyasthecornerstone
ofhumansocietyuniversalityandthefamily,functionsofthefamily,diverseforms
offamily,nuclear,extended,jointetc.,Stabilityandchangeinthefamily.
4.Kinship:Descent,residence,alliance,kins,termsandkinshipbehaviour,Lineage
andclan.
5.Economic Anthropology : Meaning and scope modes of exchange, barter and
ceremonialexchangereciprocityandredistributionmarketandtrade.
6.Political anthropology : Meaning and scope: The locus and power and the
functions of Legitimate authority in different societies, Difference between State
andStatelesspoliticalsystems,NationbuildingprocessesinnewState,Lawand
justiceinsimplersocieties.
7.Religion:OriginsofReligions,Animismandanimatism,Differencebetweenreligion
andmagic,TotamismandTaber.
8.FieldworkandfieldworktraditioninAnthropology
SECTION II.
1.Foundations of the theory of organic evolution, Lamarckism, Darwinism and the
synthetic theory Human evolution, biological and cultural dimensions.
Microevolution
2.TheOrderPrimate:AcomparativestudyofPrimateswithspecialreferencetothe
anthropoidapesandman.
3.Fossil evidence, for human evolution Dryopithecus, Ramapithecus,
Australopilecines,
Homo
erectus
(Pithecanthroplines)
Homosapiens,
NeanderthalensisandHomosapiens.
4.Genetics definition : The medelian principles and its application to human
population.
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SECTION III
1.Technique,methodandmethodologydistinguished.
2.Meaning of evolutionbiological and sociocultural the basic assumptions of 19th
century evolutionism, The comparative trends, Contemporary trends in
evolutionarystudies.
3.Diffusion and diffusionismAmerican diffusionism and historical ethnology of the
German speaking ethnologists, The attack on the comparative method by
diffusionistsandFranzBoss.Thenature,purposeandmethodsofcomparisonin
socialculturalanthropologyRedelifeBrown,Eggan,OscarLewisandSarana.
4.Patterns, basic personality construct and model personality. The relevance of
anthropological approach to national character studies, Recent trends in
psychological anthropology. 5. Function and cause, Mainowskis contribution to
functionalism in social anthropology, Function and structure, RedciliffeBrown,
Firth,FortesandNadel.
5.Structuralism in linguistics and in social anthropology, LeviStrauss and Leach in
viewingsocialstructureasamodelthestructuralistmethodinthestudyofmyth.
NewEthnographyandformalsemanticanalysis.
6.NormsandValues,Valuesasacategoryofanthropologicaldescription.Valuesof
anthropologistandanthropologyasasourceofvalues,Culturalrelativismandthe
issueofuniversalvalues.8.
7.Socialanthropologyandhistory,Scientificandhumanisticstudiesdistinguished.A
critical examination of the plea for the unity of method of the natural and social
sciences. The nature and logic of anthropological field work method and its
autonomy.
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migration,
forests
and
tribals
6.Specialproblemsofhuntingandfoodgatheringandotherminortribes.
7.The problems of culturecontact impact of urbanization and industrialization
depopulation,regionalism,economicandpsychologicalfrustrations.
8.History of tribal administration, The constitutional safeguards for the Scheduled
Tribes, Policies, Plans, programmes of tribal development and their
implementations, the response of the tribal people to the Government measures
for them, the different approaches to tribal problems, the role of anthropology in
tribaldevelopment.
9.The constitutional provisions regarding the scheduled castes, Social disabilities
suffered by the Scheduled Castes and the socioeconomic problems faced by
them.
10.Issuesrelatingtonationalintegration.
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