" anthropology is the science of man " - kober(1948)
The anthropology for civil service exam optional deals with the most elegant study of the subject. although going depth into the subject is not a better prespective to study, we should study good enough in physical anthropology concepts like evolution of homosapiens,theories of lamark,darwin,..etc and social anthropology concepts like caste,tribes/tribal settelments , .. etc.
In this blog (7pmmocktest.blogspot.in) i've given my entire study notes on day to day basis of upsc cse - anthropology (optional)
if beginner : you should know about the paper first than the subject.
there are 2 papers for the subject . Each paper is worth of 250 marks.
the paper 1 consist of 8 questions in 2 sections (section A & B) > you should attend 5 questions of which 2 are compulsory and 3 is of your own choice from rest 6 (atleast 1 qn from each section).
This paper(1) deals with physical / biological anthropology and also questions used to pop up from archeological anthropology as well.
the paper 2 also consist of 8 questions in 2 sections (section A & B) > you should attend 5 questions of which 2 are compulsory and 3 is of your own choice from rest 6 (atleast 1 qn from each section).
This paper(2) deals with socio-cultural anthropology and also questions used to pop up from linguistic anthropology as well.
Now, let's see what is anthropology!
anthropology is simply known as the study of evolution of man and his work.
yet "anthropos" in greek known as man and "logos" is known as science. , so anthropology can be termed as science of man and his work.
