MAINS 2017 ANTHROPOLOGY

SOSINFORANTHROPOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY - IMPORTANT AREAS

MAINS 2017

PAPER 1
CHAPTER 1 14. Unilineal Descent groups

1. Scope and Contemporary status of CHAPTER 3

Biological Anthropology
15. Impact of Globalisation on Indigenous
2. Mesolithic Culture economic systems

3. Early Homo sapiens 16. Potlatch

4. Political Science and Political 17. Modes of Economic Exchange

Anthropology
CHAPTER 4
5. Anthropology in International Relations
18. Characteristics of Tribal Law
6. Primate Behaviour
19. Chiefdoms
7. Terrestrial Adaptation
CHAPTER 5
8. Synthetic Theory in evolution
20. Naturalism
9. Comment on the changing brain size
21. Fetishism
from Australo to Homo sapiens
22. Religious Functionaries
CHAPTER 2
23. Magic Religion Science
10. Cultural aspects of sex, gender and
sexuality CHAPTER 6

11. Marriage payments 24. Structural Functionalism

12. Kinship terminology studies in 25. Ethics in Anthropology

Anthropology
26. Cultural Materialism
13. Functions and Typological study of
Family 27. Comparative Method in Anthropology

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28. Levi' Strauss as an Anthropologist and as 41. Genetic Load

an ethnographer
42. Gene mapping and Genome study
28**. Franz Boas
CHAPTER 10
29. American vs German Austrian
43. Growth Curves
Diffusionism
44. Biological and Sociological importance
30. Post Modernism
of Senescence
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 11
31. LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY- complete
45. Social and Cultural theories of
chapter
population
CHAPTER 8
46. Anthropological studies related to
32. Life Histories Menarche and Menopause

33. Essay on Fieldwork Traditions 47. Theories of Aging

34. New Ethnography CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 9 48. Status and Laws of Forensic

Anthropology in India
35. Relevance of Racial studies
49. Fields of Medical Anthropology
36. Twin Studies
50. Bio ethics and Anthropology
37. Co Twin method
51. Anthropology in sports
38. Blood groups as Genetic markers
39. Dermatoglyphics, their importance and 52. Food Tabus and Nutritional Disorders
applications in Anthropology
53. Biomedical Genetics
40. Sex chromosomal aberrations and
Anthropological studies

PAPER 2
CHAPTER 1 55. Status of Indian Archeology

54. Profiles of Anthropological Survey of 56. H D Sankalia

India, Archeological Survey of India and
57. Indian Human Fossil evidences
Asiatic Society of Bengal

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58. Iron age in India 77. Agrarian Social Structure

59. Langhnaj CHAPTER 6

60. Ramapithecus 78. Tribal Religion

61. Siwaliks in Indian Archeology 79. Approaches to tribal welfare

CHAPTER 2 80. New Tribal Rights Act

62. Mongoloid Racial elements 81. Economic elements of Indian Tribes

63. Comparison of Guha's and Sarkar's 82. Tribal Health

Racial classifications of Indian population
83. Criminal Tribes
CHAPTER 3
84. Polyandry in Tribal India
64. Modernisation
CHAPTER 7
65. Caste and Race
85. Development, Displacement and
66. Caste in other Religions Rehabilitation

67. Future of Caste 86. 5th and 6th Schedules in Indian

Constitution
68. Caste mobility
87. Mechanisms of Social Change among
69. Islamisation of Indian tradition tribals
70. Varna and Caste 88. The status and issues related to OBCs
71. Changing Caste 89. Constitutional provisions for Religious
72. Christianisation as a mechanism of and Linguistic minorities
social change CHAPTER 8
73. Secularisation 90. Studies related to Nationalism in
CHAPTER 4 Anthropology

74. Sir William Jones CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 5 91. Ethnicity and Ethnic Boundaries

75. Panchayat Raj and social change 92. Uses of Anthropology

76. Village studies

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