ANTHROPOLOGY (ARTS Stream)
Academic Year (2022 - 23)
SYLLABUS FOR HIGHER SECONDARY FINAL YEAR COURSE
One Paper - Time - Three Hours - Marks 100
Unit wise Distribution of Marks and Periods:
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Unit No. |
Title |
Marks |
Periods |
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Unit-1: Unit-2: Unit-3: Unit-4: Unit-5: |
Physical
Anthropology (ii) Pre
historic Archaeology (ii) Material
Culture and Economic Anthropology Social
Anthropology and Ethnography Ecology |
15 15 10 20 10 |
30 30 20 40 20 |
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Total |
70 |
140 |
THEORY - 70 MARKS
Unit wise Distribution of Course contents:
Unit-1: Physical Anthropology (ii):
1)
Preliminary knowledge of Human genetics. Mendel’s
Laws of heredity Monohybrid and Dihybrid ratio.
2)
Definition of Race and Racial criteria, significance
of skin colour, Eye form and colour, Head form, and ABa blood groups as racial
criteria.
3)
Racial classification, distinctive physical features
and geographical distribution of the major racial groups of man: Caucasoid,
Mongoloid, Negroid and Australoid.
Unit-2 : Prehistoric Archaeology (ii) :
1)
Tool Making: Techniques of manufacturing core and
flake tools, primary and secondary flaking, pressure flaking, grinding and
polishing. Materials used in making prehistoric tools.
2)
Tool families: Pebble tools, Hand axe, Cleaver,
Scrapers, Microliths, Points, Blades, Awl, Graver, Celts, Sickles, Spear-head,
Arrow-head and Bone tools.
3)
Prehistoric Cultures: A brief outline of the
following prehistoric cultures of the Paleol ithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic
periods-
4)
A comparative study of the salient features of Paleolithic
and Neolithic cultures.
Unit-3: Material culture and economic Anthropology:
1)
Economic life: meaning and aspects, characteristic
features of primitive or simple economic system.
2)
Subsistence economy: domestication of
animals-pastoralism, agriculture-shifting cultivation, horticulture, terrace
cultivation and plough cultivation.
3)
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:
1)
Family: Definition forms and types: nuclear family,
joint family, family of orientation, family of procreation, monogamous and
polygamous (polygynous and polyandrous).
2)
Clustered relationship in nuclear family.
3)
Rules of residence: Patrilocal, matrilocal,
neolocal, avancolocal, bi-local, matripatri local. Rules of descent:
Patrilineal and matrilineal descent.
4)
Functions of family, social nature of family.
B: Ethnography:
1)
A brief outline of the land and people of North-East
India.
2)
Study of material culture and economic life of the
following communities
The Garo: Shifting or Jhum cultivation.
The Mishing: Plough cultivation
3)
A study of social organization of the Ao Naga and
the Apatani.
Unit-5: Ecology:
1)
Meaning and definition of ecology and environment.
2)
Elements of environment: Solid, liquid, and gas.
3)
Physical or abiotic environment, biological or
biotic environment and sociocultural environment.
4)
Man as the main agent to disturb the ecological
balance.
SYLLABUS
FOR ANTHROPOLOGY PRACTICAL
Time:
Three Hours
Total
Marks- 30
Unit-I: Physical Anthropology: 15
Marks
A. Osteology:
(i) Introduction to the subject
(ii) Study and acquiring knowledge of anatomical position of the
following Human bones-
Frontal, Occipital, Parietal, Temporal, Mandible, Humerus,
Radius, Ulna, Scapula, Innominate, Femur, Tibia, Fibula.
Students are required to draw the above bones (one each)
proportionately labeling the important
Features and to describe them.
Side identification of the following bones are to be made:
Parietal, Scapula, Innominate, Femur.
Unit-2: Social Survey: 15 Marks
a)
Students are to be given very preliminary idea on
anthropological field work and social survey in the classroom. The survey
schedule to be used shall be explained to them.
b)
The students are required to collect demographic
data by using the survey schedule given in annexure “A” (at least 10 families
each) in a neighboring area and the teacher/ teachers accompanying them will
teach them the technique of collecting such data.
c)
The collected data are to be tabulated, analyzed
under the following heads:
1)
Age -sex distribution (taking age group of five
years starting from 0 to 80)
2)
Marital status (showing married, widow/ widower,
divorced/ divorcee and unmarried)
3)
Family type (primary family, joint family,
polygamous family)
4)
Educational standard.
5)
Occupation (showing primary and subsidiary)
Students are to prepare a model table for each of
the above heads and fit/tabulate their data in them. Each table is to be
followed by a short analysis of the same.
d)
The survey schedules used by the students are to be verified
and corrected by the teachers and the same are to be submitted along with the
analysis of the survey data at the time of examination.
Distribution of Marks in Practical Examination
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1. Osteology. 2. Note book on Osteology. 3. Viva Voce. 4. Social Survey. 5. Viva Voce on Social Survey. |
10 3 2 10 5 |
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Total |
30 |
ANNEXURE: A
DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY SCHEDULE
Serial No................ Tribe/Caste/Community....... Name of the Informant......................
House hold No....... Religion..............................
ViII/Town.....................
Investigator............. Police Station............... Date......................
District.........................
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SI No |
Name of the family members |
Sex |
Age |
Place of birth |
Relation with head of the family |
Mother Tongue |
Secondary language |
Education |
Occupation |
Marital status |
Remark |
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