Parer I
1.1 Meaning and scope Anthropology
1.2 Relationship with other disciplines: History, Economics,
Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Life Science, Medical Science.
1.3 Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and
relevance
a) Social-cultural Anthropology
b) Physical and biological Anthropology
c) Archaeological Anthropology.
1.4 Human Evolution and emergence of Man.
Organic Evolution-Theories of
evolution in historical perspective, pre-Darwinian, Darwinian and Post-Darwinian
period. Modern 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, mosaic evolution); Principles of
systematics and taxonomy, major primate taxa, tertiary and quaternary fossil
primates, Systematics of Hominoidea and Hominidae, Origin and evolution of
man-'Homo erectus and Homo sapiens'.
1.5 Phylogenetic status, characteristics and distribution of
the following:
a) Prepleistocence fossil primates-Oreopithecus.
b) South and East African
hominids-Plesianthropus/Australopithecus Africaus, Paranthropus,
Australopithecus.
c) Paranthropus-Homo erectus-Homo erectus javanicus, Homo
erectus pekinensis.
d) Homo Heidelbergensis.
e) Neanderthal man-La-chapelle-aus-saints (Classical type), Mt.
Carmelites types (Progressive type).
f) Rhodesian man
g) Homo sapiens-Cromognon, Grimaldi, Chancelede.
Recent advances in understanding the evolution, distribution
and multidisciplinary approach to understand a fossil type in relation to
others.
1.6 Evolutionary trend and classification of the order
Primates, Relationship with other mammals, molecular evolution of Primates,
Comparative anatomy of man and apes, primate locomotion;-terrestrial and
arboreal adaptation, skeletal changes due to erect posture and its
implications.
1.7 Cultural Evolution-broad outlines of pre-historic
cultures:
a) Paleolithic
b) Mesolithic
c) Neolithic
d) Chalcolithic
e) Copper-Bronze age
f) Iron age
2.1 Family-Definition and typology of family, household and
domestic groups. Basic structure and functions; stability and changes in family.
Typological and processual approaches to the study of family. Impact of
urbanization, industrialization, education and feminist movements. Universality
of family-a critique.
2.2 Concept of kinship :
Definition of kin, incest prohibition exogamy and endogamy.
Principles of descent-types and functions. Political and jural aspects of
kinship. Unilineal, bilateral and double descent. Descent, filiation and
complementary filiation. Kinship terminology, typology and approaches to the
study of terminology Alliance and descent.
2.3 Marriage -Definition, types and variation of marriage
systems. Debates on the universal definition of marriage. Regulation of
marriage-preferential, prescriptive, proscriptive and open systems. Types and
form of marriage Dowry, bride-price, pestation and marriage stability.
3.1 Study of culture, patterns and processes. Concept of
culture, patterns of culture, relationships between culture and civilization and
society.
3.2 Concept of Social Change and Cultural Change:
3.3 Social structure and social organization, Role-analysis and
social network. Institutions, groups community. Social stratification:
principles and form, status, class and power, gender. Nature and types of
mobility.
3.4 Concept of Society.
3.5 Approaches to the study of culture and society-classical
evolutionism, neo-evolutionism, culture ecology, historical particularism and
diffusionism, structural-functionalism, culture and personality,
transaction-alism, symbolism, congnitive approach and new ethnography, post
structuralism and post-modernism.
4.1 Definitions and functions of religion. Anthropological
approaches to the study of religion-evolutionary, psychological and functional.
Magic, witchcraft and sorcery; definitions and functions and functionaries:
priest, saman, medicine man and sorcerers. Symbolism in religion and rituals.
Ethnomedicine. Myths and rituals: definitions and approaches to their
study-structural, functional and processual Relation with economic and political
structures.
5.1 Meaning, scope and relevance, principles governing
production, distribution and consumption in communities subsisting on
hunting-gathering, fishing, pastoralism, horticulture and other economic
pursuits. Fomalist and substantivist debate-Dalton, Karl-polyanny and Marx
approach and New Economic Anthropology. Exchange: gifts, barter, trade,
ceremonial exchange and market economy.
5.2 Theoretical foundations. Types of political
organisations-band, tribe, chiefdom, state, concept of power, authority and
legitimacy. Social control, law and justice in tribal and peasant societies.
6.1 Concepts of developmental Anthropological perspective.
Models of development. Critiques of classical developmental theories. Concepts
of planning and planned development. Concept of participatory development.
Culture ecology and sustainable development. Displacement and
rehabilitation.
7.1 Concept of research in anthroplogy, subjectivity and
reflexivity in terms of gender class, ideology and ethics. Distinction between
methodology, methods and techniques. Nature and explanation in anthropological
research. Positivistics and non-positivistic approaches. Comparative methods;
nature, purpose and methods of comparison in social and cultural anthroplogy.
Basic techniques of data collection. Interview, participant and other forms of
observation, schedules, questionnaire, case-study methods, extended casestudy
methods, life histories and seconday sources, oral history, genealogical method,
participatory, learning and assessment (PLA). Participatory rapid assessment
(PRA). Analysis, interpretation and presentation of data.
8.1 Concept, scope and major branches of human genetics. Its
relationship with other branches of science and medicine.
8.2 Method for study of genetic principles in man-family study
(pedegree analysis, twin study, foster child, co-twin method, cytogenetic
method, chromosomal and karyotype analysis), biochemical methods, immunological
methods, D.N.A. technology and recombinant technologies.
8.3 Twin study method-zygosity, heritability estimates, present
status of the twin study method and its applications.
8.4 Mendelian genetics in man-family study, single factor,
multifactor, lethal, sub-lethal, and polygenic inheritance in man.
8.5 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 (statistical and probability
methods for study of human genetics).
8.6 Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man,
methodology.
a) Numerical and structural aberrations (disorders)
b) Sex chromosomal aberrations-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 counselling, human DNA profiling, gene mapping and genome study.
8.7 Concept of race in histrogical and biological perspective.
Race and racism, biological basis of morphological variation of non-metric and
metric characters. Racial criteria, racial traits in relation to heredity and
environment; biological basis of racial classification, racial differentiation
and race-crossing in man.
8.8 Ethnic groups of mankind-characteristics and distribution
in world, racial classification of human groups. Principal living peoples of
world. Their distribution and characterisicts.
8.9 Age, sex and population variation in gentic marker-ABO, Rh
blood groups, HLA, Hp, transferrin, Gm, blood enzymes. Physiological
characteristics-Hb level, body fat, pulse rate, respiratory functions and
sensory perceptions in different cultural and socio-economic groups. Impact of
smoking air pollutions, alcoholism, drugs and occupational hazards on
health.
9.1 Concepts and Methods of Ecological Anthropology.
Adaptation-social and cultural Deterministic theories-a critique.
Resources-biological, non-biological and sustainable development. Biological
adaptation-climatic, environmental, nutritional and genetic.
10.1 Relevance in understanding of contemporary society.
Dynamics of ethnicity at rural, tribal, urban and international levels. Ethric
conflicts and political developments. Concept of ethnic boundaries. Ethnicity
and concept of nation state.
11.1 Concept of human growth and development-stages of
growth-prenatal, 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.
12.1 Reproductive biology, demography and population study.
Reproductive physiology of male and female. Biological aspects of human
fertility. Relevance of menarche, menopause and other bioevents to fertility.
Fertily patterns and differentials.
12.2 Demographic theories-biological, social and cultural.
12.3 Demographic methods-census, registration system, sample
methods, duel reporting system.
12.4 Population structures and population dynamics.
12.5 Demographic rates and ratios, life table-structure and
utility.
12.6 Biological and socio-ecological factors influencing
fecundity, fertility natality and mortality.
12.7 Methods of studying population growth.
12.8 Biological consequences of population control and family
welfare.
13.1 Anthropology of sports
13.2 Nutritional Anthropology.
13.3 Anthropology in designing of defence and other
equipments.
13.4 Forensic Anthropology.
13.5 Methods and principles of personal identification and
reconstruction.
13.6 Applied human genetics-Paternity diagnosis genetic
counselling and eugenics.
13.7 DNA technology-prevention and cure of diseases.
13.8 Anthropo-gentics in medicine
13.9 Serogenetics and cytogenetics in reproductive biology.
13.10 Application of statistical principles in human genetics
and Physical Anthropology.
PAPER II
1. Evolution of the Indian Culture and Civilization-Pre
historic (Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic), Protohistoric (Indus
Civilization). Vedic and post-Vedic beginnings. Contributions of the tribal
cultures.
2. Demographic profile of India-Ethinic and linguistic elements
in the Indian population and their distribution. Indian population, factors
influencing its structure and growth.
3. The basic structure and nature of traditional Indian social
system-a critique. Varnasharam, Purushartha, Karma,
Rina and Rebirth.
Theories on the origin of caste system, Jajmani system. Structural basis of
inequality in traditional Indian society. Impact of Buddhism, Jainism, Islam and
Christianity on Indian society.
4. Emergence, growth and development of anthropology in
India-contributions of the 19th Century and early 20th Century
scholar-administrators. Contributions of Indian anthropologists to tribal and
caste studies. Contemporary nature of anthropological studies in India.
5. Approaches to the study of Indian society and
culture-traditional and contemporary.
5.1 Aspects of Indian village-Social organisations of
agriculture, impact of market economy on Indian villages.
5.2 Linguistic and religious minorities-social, political and
economic status.
6. Tribal situation in India-biogenetic variability, linguistic
and socio-economic characteristics of the tribal populations and their
distribution. Problems of the tribal Communities-land alienation, poverty
indebtedness, low literacy, poor educational facilities, unemployment,
underemployment, health and nutrition. Developmental projects-tribal
displacement and problems of rehabilitation:
Development of forest policy and tribals, Impact of
urbanisation and industrialization on tribal and rural populations.
7. Problems of exploitation and deprivation of Scheduled
Castes/Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. Constitutional safeguards
for Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes. Social change and contemporary tribal
societies: Impact of modern democratic institutions, development programmes and
welfare measures on tribals and weaker sections. Emergence of ethnicity, tribal
movements and quest for identity. Pseudo-tribalism.
8. Social change among the tribes during colonial and
post-Independent India.
8.1 Impact of Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and other religious
on tribal societies.
8.2 Tribe and nation state-a comparative study of tribal
communities in India and other countries.
9. History of administration of tribal areas, tribal policies,
plans, programmes of tribal development and their implementation. Role of
N.G.Os.
9.1 Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development.
9.2 Contributions of anthropology to the understanding of
regionalism, communalism and ethnic and political movements.