This introductory paper is intended to acquaint the students with Anthropology. It is organized in such a way that even students without any previous exposure to Anthropology would acquire an interest in the subject and follow it. The course aims to help the students to understand the holistic perspective and integrative approach to Anthropology not only amongst its branches but also across a wide variety of other disciplines.
Origin and meaning of Anthropology.
Need to study Anthropology in India.
Scope of Anthropology.
Relationship with Social sciences.
Relationship with Life sciences.
Branches of Anthropology: Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Ethnology.
Fundamentals of Biological Anthropology: Human evolution, Human variation, Human genetics.
Fundamentals of Social-cultural Anthropology: Culture, Society, Family, Kinship
Fundamentals of Archaeological Anthropology: Tool typology, Cultural evolution