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I know about a wonderful book for this purpose. The book's name is Economic Affairs, by RN Gupta. I bought it last year from Delhi, and I give all credits to this book for my success in the GS paper of IAS Mains.

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Ella Said:

Hi there, can anyone help me in getting study material of Anthropology for IAS mains in Delhi?

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Main Examination - Syllabus (Anthropology)

Paper I



Meaning and scope Anthropology

Relationship with other disciplines: History, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Life Science, Medical Science.

Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance

Social-cultural Anthropology

Physical and biological Anthropology

Archaeological Anthropology.

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'.

Phylogenetic status, characteristics and distribution of the following:

Prepleistocence fossil primates-Oreopithecus.

South and East African hominids-Plesianthropus/Australopithecus Africaus, Paranthropus, Australopithecus.

Paranthropus-Homo erectus-Homo erectus javanicus, Homo erectus pekinensis.

Homo Heidelbergensis.

Neanderthal man-La-chapelle-aus-saints (Classical type), Mt. Carmelites types (Progressive type).

Rhodesian man

Homo sapiens-Cromognon, Grimaldi, Chancelede.

Recent advances in understanding the evolution, distribution and multidisciplinary approach to understand a fossil type in relation to 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 erect posture and its implications.

Cultural Evolution-broad outlines of pre-historic cultures:

Paleolithic

Mesolithic

Neolithic

Chalcolithic

Copper-Bronze age

Iron age

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.

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.

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.

Study of culture, patterns and processes. Concept of culture, patterns of culture, relationships between culture and civilization and society.

Concept of Social Change and Cultural Change:

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.

Concept of Society.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Concepts of developmental Anthropological perspective. Models of development. Critiques of classical developmental theories. Concepts of planning and planned development. Concept of parti

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