Anthro Notes Paper 1

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ANTHROPOLOGY PAPER 1

1.1 Meaning, Scope and development of Anthropology.

1.2 Relationships with other disciplines

1.3-: Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance

1.4 -: Human Evolution and emergence of Man

1.5 -: Primates;

1.6 Phylogenetic status, characteristics and geographical distribution of Hominids

1.7 The biological basis of Life

1.8 (a) Principles of Prehistoric Archaeology. (b) Cultural Evolution—Prehistoric cultures

2.1 The Nature of Culture

2.2 The Nature of Society

2.3 Marriage

2.4 Family

2.5 Kinship

3. Economic Organization :

Meaning, scope and relevance of economic anthropology;
Formalist and Substantivist debate;
Principles governing production, distribution and exchange (reciprocity, redistribution and market), in communities, subsisting on hunting and gathering, fishing, swiddening, pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture;
Globalization and indigenous economic systems.

4. Political Organization and Social Control :

Band, Tribe, Chiefdom, Kingdom and State;
Concepts of power, authority and legitimacy;
Social control, law and justice in simple Societies.

5. Religion :

Anthropological approaches to the study of religion.
Monotheism and polytheism;
Sacred and profane;
Myths and rituals;
Forms of religion in tribal and peasant Societies.
Religion, magic and science distinguished;
Magico-religious functionaries.

6. Anthropological theories :

(a) Classical evolutionism
(b) Historical particularism; Diffusionism.
(c) Functionalism; Structural—Functionlism.
(d) Structuralism
(e) Culture and personality
(f) Neo—evolutionism
(g) Cultural materialism
(h) Symbolic and interpretive theories
(i) Cognitive theories
(j) Post-Modernism.

7. Culture, Language and Communication

Nature, origin and characteristics of language;
Verbal and non-verbal communication;
Social contex of language use.

8. Research methods in Anthropology :

(a) Fieldwork tradition in anthropology
(b) Distinction between technique, method and methodology
(c) Tools of data collection : Observation, interview, schedules, questionnaire, case study, genealogy,
- life-history,
- oral history,
- secondary sources of information,
- participatory methods.
(d) Analysis, interpretation and presentation of data.

9 Genetics

9.1 Human Genetics
9.2 Mendelian genetics
9.3 Concept of Genetics
9.4 Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology
9.5 Race and racism
9.6 Age, sex and population variation as genetic marker
9.7 Concepts and methods of Ecological Anthropology
9.8 Epidemiological Anthropology

10. Concept of human growth and Development :

Stages of growth— pre-natal, natal, infant, childhood, adolescence, maturity, senescence.
—Factors affecting growth and development : genetic, environmental, biochemical, nutritional, cultural and socio-economic.
—Ageing and senescence.
- Theories and observations
—Biological and chronological longevity.
Human physique and somatotypes.
Methodologies for growth studies.

11.1 : Relevance of menarche, menopause and other bioevents to fertility.

Fertility patterns and differentials.

11.2 Demographic theories- biological, social and cultural.

11.3 Biological and socio-ecological factors influencing : fecundity, fertility, natality and mortality

12. Applications of Anthro :

Anthro of Sports,
Nutritional Anthro,
Anthro in designing of defence and other equipments,
Forensic Anthro,
Methods and principles of personal identification and reconstruction,
Applied human genetics
- —Paternity diagnosis,
- Genetic counselling and
- Eugenics,
- DNA tech in diseases and medicine,
- Serogenetics and cytogenetics in reproductive biology

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