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Anthropology — Model Syllabus Roadmap

22 Official 2024 Lecturer Disciplines — Syllabus Directory · Subjects 1–11

Useful for: SSB Lecturer (Degree Colleges)

Overview

Anthropology studies humans biologically, socially, culturally and through the past; the syllabus spans physical, social-cultural, archaeological and linguistic anthropology.

Key points

  • Branches: physical (biological), social-cultural, archaeological and linguistic anthropology.
  • Fieldwork: Bronisław Malinowski established participant observation (Trobriand Islands).
  • Theories: functionalism (Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown), structuralism (Lévi-Strauss).
  • Kinship, marriage and family systems.
  • Human evolution: Australopithecus → Homo erectus → Homo sapiens.
  • Tribal India: S. C. Roy’s work on the Mundas; the Anthropological Survey of India (1945).

Explanation

  • Applied anthropology informs development and health.
  • Ethnography is the main research product.
  • Cultural relativism avoids judging cultures by one’s own.
  • Fifth and Sixth Schedules concern tribal administration.

Step by step

  1. Place the question in its unit of the syllabus.
  2. Recall the theory, thinker, law or work involved.
  3. Eliminate options from other schools, periods or units.

Examples

  • Participant observation pioneer → Malinowski.
  • Structuralism in anthropology → Lévi-Strauss.
  • Anthropological Survey of India → 1945.

Traps and advanced points

  • Trap: Mixing functionalism and structuralism.
  • Trap: Ethnocentric judgements.
  • Trap: Wrong evolution order.

Quick revision

  • Four branches.
  • Malinowski, Lévi-Strauss.
  • AnSI 1945.

Practice MCQs

  1. Who is known as the father of American anthropology?

    1. Lewis Henry Morgan
    2. Bronisław Malinowski
    3. E. B. Tylor
    4. Franz Boas

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    Answer: (d) Franz Boas. He stressed cultural relativism.

  2. Participant observation as a fieldwork method is especially associated with

    1. Herbert Spencer
    2. Auguste Comte
    3. Bronisław Malinowski
    4. Karl Marx

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    Answer: (c) Bronisław Malinowski. He studied the Trobriand Islanders.

  3. Marriage within one's own group is called

    1. monogamy
    2. exogamy
    3. polygamy
    4. endogamy

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    Answer: (d) endogamy. Exogamy is marriage outside the group.

  4. Sarat Chandra Roy is known for his studies of the

    1. tribes of Chota Nagpur
    2. Todas of the Nilgiris
    3. Nayars of Kerala
    4. Nagas only

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    Answer: (a) tribes of Chota Nagpur. He studied the Mundas and Oraons.

  5. The four traditional fields of anthropology are physical, cultural, linguistic and

    1. astronomical
    2. archaeological
    3. economic
    4. legal

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    Answer: (b) archaeological. Physical anthropology is also called biological anthropology.

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