Anthropology

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CUET Syllabus Anthropology
Note: There will be one Question Paper which will have 50 questions out of which 40 questions need to be attempted.

CUET 2024 + 12th Class Board

Unit-1: Physical Anthropology:

  1. Preliminary knowledge of Human genetics. Mendel’s Laws of heredity Monohybrid and Dihybrid ratio
  2. Definition of Race and Racial criteria, sign if the chance of skin color, Eye for mand color, 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:

  1. Tool Making: Techniques of manufacturing core and flake tools, primary and secondary flaking, pressure flaking, grinding, and polishing. Material used in making prehistoric tools.
  2. Tool families: Pebbletools, Handaxe, 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 Paleolithic, 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 the primitive or simple economic system.
  2. Subsistence economy: domestication of animals-pastoralism,agriculture-shifting cultivation, horticulture, terrace cultivation, and plough cultivation.
  3. A brief outline of the method of hunting, fishing and agriculture with reference to various communities of North East India as far as practicable

Unit-4: Social Anthropology and Ethnography:

  1. Social Anthropology :
    1. Family: Definition, forms, and types: nuclear family, joint family, a family of orientation, family of procreation, monogamous and polygamous(polygynous and polyandrous).
    2. Cluster relationship in a nuclear family
    3. Rules of residence: Patrilocal, matrilocal, neolocal, avancolocal, bilocal, matri patrilocal Rule Of Descent: Patrilineal and matrilineal descent.
    4. Functions of family, social nature family
  2. Ethnography :
    1. Abrief outline ofthe land and people of North-East India.
    2. Study of material culture and economic life of the following communities
    3. The Garo: Shifting or Jhum cultivation.
    4. The Mishing: Plough cultivation
    5. A study of social organization of the AoNaga and the Apatani.

Unit-5: Ecology :

  1. Meaning and definition of ecology and environment.
  2. Elements of the environment: Solid, liquid, and gas
  3. Physical or abiotic environment, biological or biotic environmen tand socio cultural environment.
  4. Man as the main agent to disturb the ecological balance.

CUET 2025 + 11th Class Board