expected question p1 Flashcards
Scope and uniqueness
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Relevance of Anthropology
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Holism
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Anthropology and Social science
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Four branches
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Socio cultural anthropology vs Linguistic anthropology
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Socio cultural anthropology vs Archaeology
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Socio cultural anthropology vs Biological/ physical Anthropology
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Micro and Macro Evolution
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Development of Synthetic theory of Evolution
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Types of locomotion
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Changes due to erect posture
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Primate behaviour
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Australopithecines
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Homo erectus
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Neanderthal man
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Relative dating
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Absolute dating
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Lower palaeolithic culture in India
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Madras culture
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Middle palaeolithic in India
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Upper palaeolithic in India
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Chalcolithic in World and India
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Iron age in India
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Prehistoric art
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Decline of Harappan Civilization theories
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Town planning in Indus valley civilization
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Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism
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Cultural relativism and Human rights
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Social stratification
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Status and role
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Marriage regulation
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Marriage payments
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Ways of acquiring spouse
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Feminist view on marriage
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Incest taboo
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Gay and Lesbian marriage/ Homosexual marriage
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L.H.Morgan classification on family
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Feminist view on family
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Changing trends in Family
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Impact of Urbanisation/Industrialization
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Descent and alliance theory
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Kinship terminology
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Formalist and Substantivist debate
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Ceremonial exchange
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Impact of globalization/ indigenous economic system on primitive economy
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Law and justice in simple society
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Social control
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Magico-religious functionaries
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Anthropological approaches
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Forms of religion
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Historical particularism (Boas)
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Functionalism (Malinowski)
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Structural— Functionalism (Radcliffe-Brown)
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Structuralism (Levi-Strauss and E. Leach)
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Culture and personality (Benedict, Mead, Linton, Kardiner and Cora-du Bois)
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Neo—evolutionism (Childe, White, Steward, Sahlins and Service)
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Cultural materialism (Harris)
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Symbolic and interpretive theories (Turner, Schneider and Geertz)
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Cognitive theories (Tyler, Conklin)
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Social context of language use
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Salvage Anthropology
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Noam Chomsky and linguistic Grammar
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Fieldwork tradition in anthropology
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Tools of Data collection
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Man Family study
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DNA recombinant technology
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Polygenic inheritance in man
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Genetic polymorphism
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Factors affecting gene frequency
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Genetic load
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Chromosomal aberrations
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Genetic imprint
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Genetic screening
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Gene mapping
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Race crossing
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Racial classification
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Blood group
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HLA
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Body fat
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Hot desert
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Cold
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High altitude
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Infectious and non-infectious/ life style disorder
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Nutrition deficiency
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Heath and Carter
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Sheldon
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Factors affecting growth and development
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Stages of growth
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Menarche
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Menopause
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Factors influencing Fertility and fecundity
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Sports
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Defence
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Forensic
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DNA technology in disease and medicine
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Personal identification and reconstruction
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