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Introduction
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, from its origins to the present day. It is a vast and interdisciplinary field that encompasses the study of human biology, culture, language, and society. The CUET Anthropology syllabus covers the fundamental concepts of anthropology, such as evolution, cultural diversity, and social structure. It also introduces students to the methods and techniques used by anthropologists to conduct research.
The syllabus is divided into four units, each of which covers a specific area of anthropology. The first unit introduces the basics of anthropology, including its history, scope, and methods. The second unit covers human evolution, from the earliest hominids to the modern human. The third unit discusses cultural diversity, including the different ways that people live and organize their societies. The fourth unit covers social structure, including the different ways that people relate to each other and form groups.
The CUET Anthropology syllabus is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of anthropology. It is a valuable resource for students who are interested in pursuing a career in anthropology or related fields.
Anthropology Syllabus CUET 2023
Unit-1: Physical Anthropology:
(i) Preliminary knowledge of Human genetics. Mendel’s Laws of heredity Monohybrid and Dihybrid ratio.
(ii) Definition of Race and Racial criteria, significance of skin colour, Eye form and colour, Head form, and ABa blood groups as racial criteria.
(iii) Racial classification, distinctive physical features and geographical distribution of them a jorracial groups of man: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid and Australoid.
Unit-2: Prehistoric Archaeology:
(i) Tool Making: Techniques of manufacturing core and flake tools, primary and secondary flaking, pressure flaking, grinding and polishing .Materials used in making prehistoric tools.
(ii) Tool families: Pebbletools,Handaxe,Cleaver,Scrapers,Microliths,Points,Blades,Awl,Graver,Celts, Sickles, Spear-head, Arrow-head and Bone tools.
(iii) Prehistoric Cultures: A brief outline of the following pre historic cultures of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods-
(iv) A comparative study of the salient features of Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures.
Unit-3: Material culture and economic Anthropology :
(i) Economic life: meaning and aspects, characteristic features of primitive or simple economic system.
(ii) Subsistence economy: domestication of animals-pastoralism, agriculture-shifting cultivation, horti-culture, terrace cultivation and plough cultivation.
(iii) Brief outline of the methods of hunting ,fishing and agriculture with reference to Various communities of North East India as far as practicable.
Unit-4: Social Anthropology and Ethnography:
A : Social Anthropology :
(i) Family: Definition, forms and types : nuclear family, joint family, family of orientation, family of procreation,
monogamous and polygamous(polygynous and poly and rous).
(ii) Clustered relationship in a nuclear family.
(iii) Rules of residence: Patrilocal, matrilocal, neolocal, avancolocal, bi-local, matri patrilocal.Rules of descent: Patrilineal and matrilineal descent.
(iv) Functions of family, social nature of family.
B : Ethnography :
(i) A brief outline of the land and people of North-East India.
(ii) Study of material culture and economic life of the following communities
(iii) The Garo: Shifting or Jhum cultivation.
(iv) The Mishing: Plough cultivation
(v) A study of social organization of the AoNaga and the Apatani.
Unit-5: Ecology :
(i) Meaning and definition of ecology and environment.
(ii) Elements of the environment: Solid, liquid, and gas.
(iii) Physical or abiotic environment, biological or biotic environment and socio cultural environment.
(iv) Man as the main agentto disturb the ecological balance.