ANTHROPOLOGY

Approach

Watch What is Anthropology, How to score high. A topper's approach to paper 2

Timestamps

I am providing timestamps to the videos. They list all major points. Do first the videos with timestamps.

Books & lectures

Books and lectures are closely inter-linked. To many classes, students come preprared reading the books. They are expected to go through the class notes as well as the books once again. Without the books, you would not be able to make best use of the course.

Marriage, Family, Kinship Paper 1: Ch: 2.3 to 2.5

Watch Gender.

Read Cultural Anthropology.

Caste & Village Paper 2: Ch: 3.2, 5.1, 5.3

Watch Stratification.

Read Caste & Religion in India

Religion Paper 1, Ch.5; Paper 2 Ch: 3.1, 3.4, 5.2, 8.1

Watch Religion, Indian Society.

Read Cultural Anthropology, Caste and Religion in India.

Anthropological Thought Paper 1 Ch: 6, 8

Watch Anthropological Thought

Read Anthropological Thought, Cultural Anthropology

Tribal India Paper 2, Ch: 3.3, 4, 6.1 to 7.3, 9.1

Watch Tribal India& Thought, Tribes

Read Tribal India & Social Thought

Physical Anthroplogy Paper 1, Ch: 1.4 to 1.8

Watch Physical Anthrpology taught by Dr. Rajashekar.

Archeological Anthropology, Paper 2, Ch: 1.1 to 1.3

Watch Archaeological Anthrpology taught by Mr. Nishanth

Book list

Take the following books of mine:

1. Cultural Anthropology

2. Caste & Religion in India

3. Anthropological Thought

4. Tribal India & Social Thought

5. IAS Anthropology, which gives classification of PYQs - 2009 to 2022

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SYLLABUS HOW COVERED

Gender 1: sex & gender

Read Cultural Anthrpology, Ch: 9; Watch Gender.

G 2: gender hierarchy

Read Cultural Anthrpology, Ch: 10; Watch Gender.

G 3: marriage

Read Cultural Anthrpology, Ch: 11, 12; Watch Gender.

G 4: kinship

Read Cultural Anthrpology, Ch: 13; Watch Gender.

G 5: kinship in North & South India

Read Cultural Anthrpology, Ch: 14, 15; Watch Gender.

Stratification 1: origins

Read Caste & Religion in India Ch:1 Watch Stratification

S 2: ANI, ASI and India's uncomfortable origins

Read Caste & Religion in India Ch:3 ( transcript of the video) You will enjoy this movie Mohenjodaro

S 3: Marx , Weber, Neo-Marxism

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch:4 Reference: Documentary on Marx

S 4: Risley , Ghurye, Dumont

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch:5 ; Watch Stratification

S 5: MN Srinivas

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch:6 ; Watch Stratification

S 6: AR Desai

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch:7 ; Watch Stratification

S 7: Phule, Narayan Guru, Periyar

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch:8 ; Watch Stratification

S 8: Ambedkar, Gandhi

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch:9 ; Watch Stratification

S 9: Andre Beteille, Dipankar Gupta

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch:10 ; Watch Stratification

Religion 1: Its forms

Read Cultural Anthropology, Ch: 20; Watch Religion

R 2: Marx & Durkheim

Read Cultural Anthropology, Ch: 21; Watch Religion

R 3: Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch: 11, 12, 13; Watch Religion

R 4: Ambedkar & Buddhism

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch: 14, 15; Watch Religion

R 5: Conversions and Christianity in North East

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch: 16; Watch Religion

R 6: Religion and Politics

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch: 17; Watch Religion

R 7: Religious minorities

Read Caste & Religion in India, Ch: 19; Watch Religion Also watch on Muhammad

Tribes 1: What is a tribe?

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 1; Watch Tribes

T 2: a) 5th & 6th Schedules b) Birhor

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 2, 14; Watch Tribes

T 3: Tribes of Andaman & Nicobar islands

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 17-21; Watch Tribes.

For images and videos watch Tribal India and Thought.

T 4: Elwin, Ghurye

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 30, 31; Watch Tribes.

T 5: NK Bose, Irawati Karve

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 32, 34; Watch Tribes.

T 6: Nagaland, Manipur

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 22, 23; Watch Tribes.

T 7: Ethnonationalism, Mizos, Bodos

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 24, 25; Watch Tribes.

T 8: LARR, FRA, PESA

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 3,4; Watch Tribes.

T 9: PYQs on social movements

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 5, 11, 12, 26 ; Watch Tribes.

T 10: Ananthakrishna Iyer, SC Roy

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 28, 29 ; Watch Tribes.

T 11: Haimendorf, SC Dube, Leela Dube

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 27, 33, 35 ; Watch Tribes.

T 12: a) LP Vidyarthi b) shifting cultivation & pastoralism c) anthropology role

Read Tribal India & Social Thought Ch: 15, 16, 36 ; Watch Tribes.

Anthropological Thought 1: Classical Evolutionism & Historical Particularism

Read Anthropological Thought Ch: 1 to 5; Watch Anthropological Thought

AT 2: Diffusionism & Functionalism

Read Anthropological Thought Ch: 6 to 10; Watch Anthropological Thought

AT 3: a) Culture & Personality b) fieldwork traditions

Read Anthropological Thought Ch: 11 to 15; Watch Anthropological Thought

AT 4: Structuralism

Read Anthropological Thought Ch: 16, 17; Watch Anthropological Thought

AT 5: a) PYQs on social structure b) NeoEvolutionism, Cultural Ecology, Cultural Materialism

Read Anthropological Thought Ch: 18 to 21; Watch Anthropological Thought

AT 6: Symbolic and Interpretative Theories

Read Anthropological Thought Ch: 23 to 25; Watch Anthropological Thought

AT 7: Cognitive Theories

Read Anthropological Thought Ch: 26 to 28; Watch Anthropological Thought

ST 7: Research methods

Read Cultural Anthrlopology Ch: 4; Watch Research methods.

ST 8: Postmodernism

Read Anthropological Thought Ch:30 ; Watch Postmodernism

Read notes on Kant, Derrida, Foucault.