SOSINFORANTHROPOLOGY

HYDERABAD
Ph : 9640182782

2015 MAINS - ANTHROPOLOGY

PAPER - I
Chapter 1.2

Anthropology - Psychology
Chapter 1.3

Applied Linguistic Anthropology

Scope
of
Archeological
Anthropology

Underwater Archeology
Chapter 1.4

Synthetic Theories

Mosaic Evolution
Social Darwinism
Contributions of Darwin to Anthro.
Chapter 1.5

Primate adaptation

Living Major Primates

Chapter 1.6

Comment on the changing

Hominid brain size in evolution.

Cultural
aspects
of
Australopithecus

Rhodesian man
Lucy fossil with latest case studies.
Chapter 1.8

Write an essay on comparative

merits and remerits of absolute
and relative dating methods.
Chapter 2.3,2.4,2.5

Need for gender nuetral laws with

examples from India.

Social regulation of Sexuality

Forms of descent groups

Changes occuring in Joint Family
system.
Chapter 3

Meaning and scope of Economic

anthropology
Substantivism in Anthropology
Chapter 4

IMPORTANT AREAS

Kinship based political systems

Mechanisms of social control
Chapter 5

Forms of Religion in tribal and

peasant societies

Sacred and Profane

Chapter 6
How did the contributions of Julian
Steward alter Anthropological
thought?
Concept of Survivals
Concept of Unilinear evolution
Contributions of Malinowski
Concepts used in Culture personality
school
Cultural materialism
Post modernism in Anthropology
Comparison of R C Brown and Levi
Strauss.
Comparative approach in Anthro.
Stewards cultural ecology
Edmund Leach
Chapter 7
Non verbal communication
Social context of language use.
Chapter 8
Tertiary sources of information
Method, methodology and Technique
Genealogy method
Evolution of Field work in
Anthropology.
Chapter 9.1, 9.2
Anthropological studies associated
with Pedigree Analysis.
Chromosomal Karyotyping
Chapter 9.3
Non consanguineous mating,
anthropological works.

Genetic drift

Chapter 9.4
Sex chromosomal aberrations
with anthropological case studies.
Human DNA Profiling
Gene mapping
Chapter 9.5
Explain the views of UN on Racism
and Caste, their interplay
Race crossing
Race formation
Chapter 9.6***
Concept of genetic markers
Body fat and Hb level in different
cultural and socio economic
groups
Pulse rate
Chapter 9.7
Concept of Ecological Anthro
Altitude adaptation with
anthropological studies
Chapter 9.8
Cultural responce to nutritional
stress
Chapter 10
Growth studies
Essay on stages of growth
Chapter 11
Fertility and fecundity, Indian
studies
Demographic theories
Studies on menarche and
menopause
Chapter 12
Paternity diagnosis
Eugenics
Defence anthropology
Anthropology of sports

SOSINFORANTHROPOLOGY
HYDERABAD
Ph : 9640182782

2015 MAINS - ANTHROPOLOGY

IMPORTANT AREAS

PAPER - II

Karma philosophy

Functions and dysfunctions of Caste

Great and Little traditions

Westernisation

Missionary activities of Islam and Christianity.

Huddons Racial classification of Indian

Population

Tribal Indebtedness.

OBCs, their situation in India

Administrator anthropologysts in Indian

Anthropology.

Impact of Urbanisation and Industrialisation

on Indian tribes

Significance of Narmada Valley in tracing

human evolution in India.

Regionalism and demand for autonomy

Contriburions of H D Sankalia to Indian

Archeology.

Social Change among tribes during colonial

and post independent India

Contriburions of S C Dube to Indian Anthro.

Impact of Buddhism on Indian tribes

Negrito racial element in India.

NGOs in Rural and Tribal development

Important archeological sites- Langhnaj,

Adamgarh, Bhimbhetka, Chirand.

Studies on Nationalism in Indian Anthro.

Denotified tribes

Ethnic revolts in India

Religious minorities, their social, political
and economic status

UCC- Reasons for delay.

Iron age in India

Current status of Anthropology in India

Modernisation

Tribal Art forms of India

Contributions of Sir William Jones to Indian

Anthropology

India on the map of Human evolution

studies of the world.

Factors influencing structure and growth of

Indian population

Caste mobility

Changing Agrarian social structure

Contributions of Robert Brucefoot to Indian

Anthropology

Xaxa committee report on Development

displaced.
Uses of Anthropology.
Shifting cultivation
Participant observation based studies in India
Western Indian tribes... economic profile.
Religious minorities.. issues, initiatives.
Ethnographic profile of tribes of Lakshadweep Is.
Status of village studies in India.
Tribe Caste continuum with suitable examples