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UPPSC 2010 Syllabus for Anthropology (Subject Code 21):

Paper III - I

I. Meaning and scope anthropology

1. Relationship with other discipline: History, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Life Science, Medical Science.
2. Main branches of Anthropology, The scope and relevance
1. Social-cultural anthropology
2. Physical and biological Anthropology
3. Archaeological Anthropology.

Human Evolution and emergence of Man. Organic Evolution-The ories of evolution in historical perspective, Per-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); Principal of systematic and taxonomy major primate taxa, tertiary and quaternary fossil primates, Systematica of Hominoidea and Hominidae. Origin and evolutions of Man-"Homoerectus and Homo sapiens"

Phylogentic status, Characteristics and distribution of the following

1. Preplestocence fossil primates-Oreoplthecus.
2. South and East African Hominids-Pleaslanthropus / Australopithecus Africaus, Paranthropus, Australopithecus.
3. Paranthropus-homo erectus-Homo erectusjavanicus, Homoerectus Pekinesis
4. Homo Heidelbergensis.
5. Neanderthal Man-La-Chapelle-aue-Salnts (Classical type) Mr. Carmelites types (Progressive type).
6. Rhodesian man.
7. Homo sapiens-Cromognon, Grimaldi, Chancelede. Recent advances in understanding the evolution, distribution and multi-disciplinary approach to understand a fossil type in relation of others.

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 errect posture and its implications.

Cultural Evolution-broad outlines of prehistoric culture

1. Paleolithic
2. Mesolithic
3. Neolithic
4. Chalcotithic
5. Copper-Bronze age
6. Iron age.

II. Family-Definition and typology family household and domestic groups. Basic structure and functions: Stability and changes in family. Typological and processual approaches to the study of family. Inpact of urbanization, Industrialization. education and feminist movements. Universality of family critique.

1. Concept of Kinship: Definition of kin, incest prohibition and exogamy and endogamy Principles of descent-types and functions Political and jural aspect of kinship. Unilineal, bilateral and double descent. Descent, filiation and descent.
2. Marriage-Definition, types and variation of marriage systems. Debates on the Universal definition of Marriage. Regulation of Marriage preferential, prescriptive, Prescriptive and open system. Types and form of marriage Dowry, brode-price, pestation and marriage stability.

III. Study of culture, patterns and processes, concept of culture, patterns of culture, relationships relationship between culture and civilization and society.

1. Concept of Social Change and cultural change
2. 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. Concept of society
4. Approaches to the study of culture and society-classical evolutionism-neo-evolutionism culture ecology, historical particularism and diffusionism, structural functionalism, culture and personality, transactionalism, symobolism cognative approach and new ethnography, post structuralism and post-modernism.

IV. Definitions and functions of religion, Anthropological approaches to the study of religion-evolutionary, psychological and functional, Magic, witchcraft and sorcery, definitions and function and functionaries: Priest, saman, medicine men 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.

V. Meaning, scope and relevance, principles governing production, distribution and consumption in communities subsisting on hunting-gathering, fishing, pastoralism, horticulture and other economic pursuits. Formalist and subtantivist date-Daltan, Kart-poiyanny and marx approach and. News Economic Anthropology. Exchange, Gifts, barter, trade, ceremonial exchange and market economy

1. Theoretical foundations. Types of political organisation and, tribe, chiefdom, State, concept of power, authority and legitimacy, Social Control, Law and Justice in tribal and peasant Societies.

VI. Concepts of development 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.

VII. Concepts of research in anthropology, subjectively and reflectivity in terms of gender class ideology and ethics. Distinction between methodology, methods and techniques. Nature and explanation in anthropological research, positivistic and non-positivistic approaches.

Comparative Methods: Nature purpose and methods of comparison in social and cultural anthropology. Basic techniques of data collection. Interview, participant and other forms of observation, schedules, questionnaire, case-study methods, extended case study methods, life histories and secondary sources.

Oral history, genealogical method, participatory, learning and assessment (PLA). Participatory rapid assessment (PRA). Analysis, interpretation and presentation of data.

VIII. Concept, Scope and major branches of human genetics. Its relationship with other branches of science and medicine.

1. Method for study of genetic principles in man-family study (pedegree analysis twin study foster child, co-twin methods, cytogentic method, chromosomal and karyotype analysis), biochemical method, immunological methods, O.N.A. technology and recombinant technologies.
2. Twin study method-zygosity,herritabiiity estimates, present status of the twin study method and its applications.
3. Mendelian genetics man-family study, single factor, multifactor, lethal, sub-lethal, and polygenic inheritance in man.
4. Concept of genetic polymorphism and selection, Mendilian population, Hardy-Weinberg law. causes and changes with bring down frequency-mutation, isolation, migration selection, inbreeding and genetic drift. Consanguineous and non-consanguineous mating. Genetic, load, genetic effect of consanguineous and cousine marriages (statistical and probability methods for study of human genetics).
5. Chromosomes, and chromosomal aberrations inman methodology
1. Numerical and structural aberrations (dis-orders)
2. Sex chromosomal aberrations- Kinefeiter (XXY), Turner (XO) super female (XXX) Intersex and other syndomic disorders.
3. Autosomal aberrations- Bown Syndrom, patau Edward and crl-du-chat syndromes
4. Genetic imprints in human disease, genetic screening, genetic counselling, human DNA profiling gene mapping and genome study.
6. Concept of race in histological and biological perspective. Race and racism, biological base of morphological variation of non-metric race in histrological 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, facial differencial and reaccorossing in man
7. Ethinic group of mankind- characterises and distribution in world, racial classification of human groups. Principal living peoples of world. Their distribution and characteristics.
8. Age, Sex and population variation in genitc 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 socioeconomic group. Impact or smoking air pollutions, alcoholism, drug and occupational hazards on health.

IX. Concepts and Methods of Ecological Anthoropology Adaptation social and cultural Deteministics theories a critique. Resources-biological, non biological and sustainable development. Biological adaptation-climatic, environmental, nutritional and genetic.

X. Relevance in understanding of contemporary society-Dynamics of ethnicity at rural, tribal, urban and international levels. Ethric conflicts and political developments. Concepts of ethnic boundaries. Ethnicity and concept of nation state.

XI. Concept of human growth of development-stages of growth-prenatal, natal, infant, childhood adolescence, maturity, senescence, Factors affecting growth and development genetic, environmental, biochemical nutiritiona, cultural and socio-economic ageing and sensescence.

Theories and observations-biological and chronological longevity. Human physique and somatotypes. Methodologies for growth studies.

1. Reproductive biology, demography and population study, Reproductive physiology of male and female, Biological aspects of human fertility, Relevance of menarche, meno-pause and other bioevents to fertility. Fertily patterns and differentials.
2. Demographic theories biological, social and cultural.
3. Demographic methods-census, registration system, sample methods, duel reporting system.
4. Populations structures and population dynamics.
5. Domographic rates and ratios, life table-structura and utility
6. Biological and socio-ecological factors influence fecundity, fertility natality and morality.
7. Methods of studying population growth.
8. Biological consequences of population control and family welfare.

XII. Anthropology of sports

1. Nutritional Anthropology.
2. Anthropology in designing of defence and other equipments.
3. Forensic anthropology.
4. Methods and principles of personal identification and reconstruction.
5. Applied human genetics, paternity diagnosis genetic counselling and eugenics
6. DNA technology-prevention and cure of diseases.
7. Antropo-genetics in medicine.
8. Seronetics and cytogenetics in reproductive biology
9. Application of Statistical principles in human genetics and Physical Anthropology.

Paper - II

1. Evolution of the India Culture and Civilization-Prohistoric (Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic) Protohrstpric (Indus Civilization). Vedic and post-vedic beginnings. Contributions of the tribal cultures.
2. Demographic profiles 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 India social System-a critique. Vamasharam, Purushartha, Karama, Rina and Rebirth. Theories on the orgin of caste system, Jajrnani system. Structural basis inequality in traditional Indian Society. Impact of Buddhism, Jainism, Islam and Christianity of Indian Society.
4. Emergence, growth and development of antroprology 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 India society and culture-traditional and contemporary.
1. Aspect of Indian village Social organization of agriculture, impact of market economy of Indian villages.
2. Linguistic and religious minorities-Social, political and economic status.
6. Tribal situation of India-biogenetic variability, lingustic and socio-economic characteristics of the tribal populations and their distribution. Problems of the tribal communities and alienation, poverty indebtedness, low literacy, poor educational facilities, unemployment, under employment, health and and nutrition Developmental projects-tribal displacement and problems of rehabilitation. Development of forest policy and tribals. Impact of urbanization and Industrialization on tribal and rural populations.
7. Problems of exploitation and deprivation of Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Triples and other Backward Classes. Constitutional safeguards for Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes. Social change and contemporary tribal societies: Impact of modern democratic institutions, development progarmmes 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

1. Impact of Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and other religious on tribal societies.
2. Tribe and nation state a comparative study of tribal communities in India and other countries.
3. History of administration of tribal areas: tribal policies, plans programmes of tribal development and their implementation. Role of N.G.Os.
1. Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development
2. Contributions of anthropology to the understanding or regionalism communalism and ethnic and political movements.

UPPSC Main Exam 2010 Syllabus for Anthropology