Date

Topic

10-Nov

Approach to Answer Writing

Paper-1, Unit-1

1.1. Meaning, Scope and development of Anthropology.
1.2. Relationships with other disciplines
1.3. Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance

11-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 2
2.1.The Nature of Culture: The concept and Characteristics of culture and civilization;Ethnocentrism vis-a-vis cultural Relativism.

2.2.The Nature of Society: Concept of Society; Society and Culture; Social Institution; Social groups; and social stratification.

Paper 1, Unit - 6 (Classical Evolutionism)

12-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 2
2.3. Marriage: Definition and universality; Laws of marriage (endogamy, exogamy, hypergamy, hypogamy, incest taboo); Type of marriage (monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, group marriage). Functions of marriage; Marriage regulations (preferential, prescriptive and proscriptive); Marriage payments (bride wealth and dowry).

13-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 2
2.4. Family: Definition and universality; Family, household and domestic groups; functions of family; Types of family (from the perspectives of structure, blood relation, marriage, residence and succession); Impact of urbanization, industrialization and feminist movements on family.

2.5.Kinship: Consanguinity and Affinity; Principles and types of descent (Unilineal, Double, Bilateral Ambilineal); Forms of descent groups (lineage, clan, phratry, moiety and kindred); Kinship terminology (descriptive and classificatory); Descent, Filiation and Complimentary Filiation; Decent and Alliance.

Paper 1, Unit - 3
3.Economic Organization: Meaning, scope and relevance of economic anthropology; Formalist and Substantivist debate; Principles governing production, distribution and exchange (reciprocity, redistribution and market), in communities, subsisting on hunting and gathering, fishing, swiddening, pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture; globalization and indigenous economic systems.

14-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 4
4.Political Organization and Social Control: Band, tribe, chiefdom, kingdom and state; concepts of power, authority and legitimacy; social control, law and justice in simple Societies.

16-Nov

Test 1

17-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 5

18-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 5
5. Religion: Anthropological approaches to the study of religion (evolutionary, psychological and functional); monotheism and polytheism; sacred and profane; myths and rituals; forms of religion in tribal and peasant Societies (animism, animatism, fetishism, naturism and totemism); religion, magic and science distinguished; magico-religious functionaries (priest, shaman, medicine man

Paper 1, Unit - 6 (Functionalism, Structuralism)

19-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 6 (Culture Personality, Neo Evolutionism, Symbolic and Interpretive

20-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 6 (Post Modernism)

Paper 1, Unit - 7
Culture, Language and Communication: Nature, origin and characteristics of language; verbal and non-verbal communication; social context of language use.

21-Nov

Paper 2, Unit - 2 (Linguistic Diversity of India)

Paper 1, Unit - 8
Research methods in Anthropology:
(a) Fieldwork tradition in anthropology
(b) Distinction between technique, method and methodology
(c) Tools of data collection: observation, interview, schedules, questionnaire, case study, genealogy, life-history, oral history, secondary sources of information, participatory methods.
(d) Analysis, interpretation and presentation of data.

26-Nov

Test 2

27-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 9
9.1. Human Genetics: Methods and Application: Methods for study of genetic principles in man family study (pedigree analysis, twin study, foster child, co-twin method, cytogenetic method, chromosomal and karyo-type analysis), biochemical methods, immunological methods, D.N.A. technology and recombinant technologies.

9.2. Mendelian genetics in man-family study, single factor, multifactor, lethal, sub-lethal and polygenic inheritance in man.

9.3. Concept of genetic polymorphism and selection, Mendelian population, Hardy-Weinberg law; causes and changes which bring down frequency-mutation, isolation, migration, selection, inbreeding and genetic drift. Consanguineous and non-consanguineous mating, genetic load, genetic effect of consanguineous and cousin marriages.

Paper 1, Unit - 1.6 (Australopithecus)

28-Nov

Paper 1, Unit - 9
9.4. Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology.
(a) Numerical and structural aberrations (disorders).
(b) Sex chromosomal aberration- Klinefelter (XXY), Turner (XO), Super female (XXX), intersex and other syndromic disorders.
(c) Autosomal aberrations- Down syndrome, Patau, Edward and Cri-du-chat syndromes.
(d) Genetic imprints in human disease, genetic screening, genetic counseling, human DNA profiling, gene mapping and genome study.

29-Nov

Paper 1
9.5. Race and racism, biological basis of morphological variation of non-metric and characters. Racial criteria, racial traits in relation to heredity and environment; biological basis of racial classification, racial differentiation and race crossing in man.

9.7. Concepts and methods of Ecological Anthropology: Bio-cultural Adaptations—Genetic and Non-genetic factors. Man’s physiological responses to environmental stresses: hot desert, cold, high-altitude climate.

1-Dec

Paper 1
9.8. Epidemiological Anthropology: Health and disease. Infectious and non-infectious diseases, Nutritional deficiency related diseases.

Homo habilis

Paper 1
10. Concept of human growth and Development: Stages of growth—pre-natal, natal, infant, childhood, adolescence, maturity, senescence.

— Factors affecting growth and development genetic, environmental, biochemical, nutritional, cultural and socio-economic.
— Ageing and senescence. Theories and observations
— biological and chronological longevity. Human physique and somatotypes. Methodologies for growth studies.

2-Dec

Paper 1, Unit - 10

Homo erectus

7-Dec

Test 3

8-Dec

Paper 1, Unit - 11
11.1. Relevance of menarche, menopause and other bio events to fertility. Fertility patterns and differentials.

11.2. Demographic theories-biological, social and cultural.

11.3. Biological and socio-ecological factors influencing fecundity, fertility, natality and mortality.

Neanderthals

9-Dec

Paper 1, Unit - 1.4
1.4. Human Evolution and emergence of Man:

Biological and Cultural factors in human evolution.
Theories of Organic Evolution (Pre-Darwinian, Darwinian and Post-Darwinian).
Synthetic theory of evolution; Brief outline of terms and concepts of evolutionary biology (Doll’s rule, Cope’s rule, Gause’s rule, parallelism, convergence, adaptive radiation, and mosaic evolution).

Homo sapiens

10-Dec

Paper 1
1.8. (a) Principles of Prehistoric Archaeology. Chronology: Relative and Absolute Dating methods.
(b) Cultural Evolution—Broad Outlines of Prehistoric cultures

1.5.Characteristics of Primates: Evolutionary Trend and Primate Taxonomy; Primate Adaptations; (Arboreal and Terrestrial) Primate Taxonomy; Primate Behaviour; Tertiary and Quaternary fossil primates; Living Major Primates; Comparative Anatomy of Man and Apes; Skeletal changes due to erect posture and its implications.

Paper 2, Unit - 1.3
Ethno-archaeology in India: The concept of ethno-archaeology; Survivals and Parallels among the hunting, foraging, fishing, pastoral and peasant communities including arts and crafts producing communities.

11-Dec

Paper 1, Unit - 1.5 (Primate social behaviour)

Paper 2, Unit - 4
Emergence, growth and development in India— Contributions of the 18th, 19th and early 20th Century scholar-administrators. Contributions of Indian anthropologists to tribal and caste studies.

12-Dec

Harappan Civilization

13-Dec

Harappan Civilization and Chalcolithic cultures

17-Dec

Test 4

Paper 1, Unit 12 - 
Applications of Anthropology: Anthropology of sports, Nutritional anthropology, Anthropology in designing of defense and other equipments, Forensic Anthropology, Methods and principles of personal identification and reconstruction, Applied human genetics—Paternity diagnosis, genetic counseling and eugenics, DNA technology in diseases and medicine, sero-genetics and cytogenetics in reproductive biology.


21-Dec

Test 5

22-Dec

Paper 2
Caste system in India— Structure and characteristics Varna and caste, Theories of origin of caste system, Dominant caste, Caste mobility, Future of caste system, Jajmani system. Tribe-case continuum.

23-Dec

Paper 2
Indian Village— Significance of village study in India; Indian village as a social system; Traditional and changing patterns of settlement and inter-caste relations; Agrarian relations in Indian villages; Impact of globalization on Indian villages.

24-Dec

Paper 2, Unit 3

25-Dec

Paper 2, Unit - 5
Indigenous and exogenous processes of socio-cultural change in Indian society: Sanskritization, Westernization, Modernization; Inter-play of little and great traditions; Panchayati Raj and social change; Media and Social change.

26-Dec

Paper 2, Unit - 3.4
Impact of Buddhism, Jainism, Islam and Christianity of Indian society.

27-Dec

Paper 2 Continued

29-Dec

Paper 2 Continued

4-Jan

Test 6

5-Jan

Paper 2, Unit - 6
6.1. Tribal situation in India— Bio-genetic variability, linguistic and socio-economic characteristics of the tribal populations and their distribution.

6.2. Problems of the tribal Communities— Land alienation, poverty, indebtedness, low literacy, poor educational facilities, unemployment, under- employment, health and nutrition.

6.3 Developmental projects and their impact on tribal displacement and problems of rehabilitation. Development of forest policy and tribals. Impact of urbanisation and industrialization on tribal populations.

6-Jan

Paper 2, Unit - 9
9.1 History of administration of tribal areas, tribal policies, plans, programmes of tribal development and their implementation. The concept of PTGs (Primitive Tribal Groups), their distribution, special programmes for their development. Role of N.G.O.s in tribal development.

9.2 Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development.

9.3 Contributions of anthropology to the understanding of regionalism, communalism and ethnic and political movements.

7-Jan

Paper 2, Unit - 7
7.1 Problems of exploitation and deprivation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. Constitutional safeguards for Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes.

7.2 Social change and contemporary tribal societies: Impact of modern democratic institutions, development programmes and welfare measures on tribals and weaker sections.

7.3 The concept of ethnicity; Ethnic conflicts and political developments; Unrest among tribal communities; Regionalism and demand for autonomy; Pseudo-tribalism. Social change among the tribes during colonial and post-Independent India.

8-Jan

Paper 2, Unit 8
8.1 Impact of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and other religions on tribal societies.

8.2 Tribe and nation state— a comparative study of tribal communities in India and other countries.

11-Jan

Test 7

25-Jan

Test 8

25-Jan

Test 9