Understand UPSC Anthropology Foundation Notes 2027–28 | Paper I Part I + II

PART – 1

1. INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
2. RELATIONSHIP OF ANTHROPOLOGY WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES
3. BRANCHES OF ANTHROPOLOGY
4. EVOLUTION
5. NEO DARWINISM/ SYNTHETIC THEORY BASIC CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION
6. CULTURE
7. SOCIETY
8. MARRIAGE
9. FAMILY
10. KINSHIP
11. ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
12. POLITICAL ORGANASATION
13. RELIGION

PART – 2

1. CLASSICAL EVOLUTIONISM
2. DIFFUSIONISM
3. FRANZ BOAS
4. FUNCTIONALISM
5. STRUCTURALISM.
6. CULTURE PERSONALITY SCHOOL
7. NEO-EVOLUTION
8. CULTURAL MATERIALISM SYMBOLIC ANTHROPOLOGY CLIFFORD GEERTZ
9. VICTOR TURNER DAVID SCHNEIDER
10. COGNITIVE ANTHROPOLOGY
11. POSTMODERNISM
12. LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
13. FIELDWORK TRADITIONS
14. TECHNIQUES OF FIELDWORK
15. THE RESEARCH PROCESS
16. HUMAN GENETICS
17. MENDELIAN GENETICS
18. POPULATION GENETICS.
19. CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS.
20. RACE AND RACISM.
21. GENETIC MARKERS
22. ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.
23. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
24. CHAPTER 10: HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
25. SYLLABUS- CHAPTER 11, 12
26. DEMOGRAPHIC THEORIES
27. FECUNDITY, FERTILITY, NATALITY AND MORTALITY
28. KINANTHROPOMETRY
29. NUTRITIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY DESIGNING OF DEFENCE AND OTHER EQUIPMENTS
30. APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
31. FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
32. DNA TECHNOLOGY IN DISEASE AND MEDICIN