SYLLABUS

Anthropology Honours
University of Calcutta

2018
 ANTHROPOLOGY HONOURS (2018)

University of Calcutta

I. CORE COURSES (CC) (Pages 5-33)

Year Semester Paper No. Title of Paper

ANT-A-1-CC-
1 1-Th & P Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANT-A-1-CC- Introduction to Socio and cultural
First 2-Th & P Anthropology
ANT-A—2- Introduction to Archaeological Anthropology
2 CC-3 & P
ANT-A-2-CC- Fundamentals of Human Origin and
4-Th & P Evolution
ANT-A-3-CC- Ecology and Culture in The Past
3 5-Th & P
ANT-A-3-CC- Human Ecology, Biological Basis of growth
6-Th & P and Nutrition
ANT-A-3-CC- Theories of Culture and Society
Second 7-Th & P
ANT-A-4-CC- Human Genetics and Population Biology
4 8-Th & P
ANT-A-4-CC-
9-Th & P Anthropology of India
ANT-A-4-CC-
10-Th & P Study of Human Population
ANT-A-5-CC-
5 11-Th & P Anthropology in Practice
ANT-A-5-CC-
Third 12-Th & P Research Methods for Practice [1]
ANT-A-6-CC-
6 13-Th & P Research Methods for Practice [2]
ANT-A-6-CC-
14-Th & P Research Methods for Practice [3]

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 II. Elective Course (Pages 33-46)
A. Discipline Specific
In each Semester 5 and 6, one from A and one from B (including Dissertation for 6th
Semester) compulsorily To be chosen from the following

Semester 5
ANT-A-5-DSE A -1: Public Policy and Anthropology
Or
ANT-A-5-DSE A -2: Advanced Human Genetics

And

ANT-A-5-DSE B-1: Advanced Indian Prehistory

Or
ANT-A-5-DSE B-2: Anthropological Demography

Semester 6
ANT-A-6-DSE A-3: Medical Anthropology
Or
ANT-A-6-DSE A-4: Advanced Forensic Anthropology

And

ANT-A-6-DSE B-3: Organisation and Anthropology

Or
ANT-A-6-DSE B-4: Advanced Indian Protohistory

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III. Ability Enhancement Course- AECC (Pages 47- 53)

Ability Enhancement Elective (Skill Based) or SEC

One each in Semester 3 and 4. To be chosen
from the following: A1 and A2 for 3rd Semester
B1 and B2 for 4th Semester

ANT-A-3-SEC-A1: Public Health and Epidemiology

ANT-A-3 SEC –A2: Anthropology and Tourism

ANT-A-4-SEC-B1: Anthropology and Development

ANT-A-4-SEC –B 2:Media and Anthropology

Note
1. AECC courses are included in the gradation
3. At least 50 lectures should be allotted for 4 credit theoretical course and 2 credit practical course.

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 CORE COURSES
ANT-A-CC-1 INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY : 1st Semester

ANT-A-1-CC-1-Th.
UNIT I:
(a) Emergence, history, divergence (sub-disciplines/sub-fields), flexibility, holism of
Anthropology
(b) Anthropology in relation to the disciplines of Physical and / or Natural sciences, Social
Sciences, Arts and Humanities

UNIT II: Introduction to Biological Anthropology

Anthropology: its definition; definition of biological anthropology --- its areas and applications, history of
development, Relationship of biological anthropology with other sciences and allied fields: medical and
health sciences, environmental sciences, earth sciences and life sciences, Bio-cultural Approach.

UNIT III: The biological basis of inheritance (I)

Cell – the unit of life
i) Structure and function of animal (eukaryotic) cells with special reference to nucleus, mitochondria and
ribosome
ii) The cell cycle: cell division – Mitosis and special reference to meiosis and its significance.
iii) Gametogenesis – spermatogenesis and oogenesis
iv) Fertilization and development of foetus in first, second and third trimesters (a brief outline of the
processes)
v) Embryonic stem cell (a brief outline)

UNIT IV: Human Morphologyi) Skeletal morphology: definition and function of skeleton,
classification of bones; articulations of bones (sutures and bones)
ii) Cranial osteology: the human cranium – name, number, features and determination of side of the
constituent bones
iii) Different views/normas (vertical, frontal, lateral, occipital, and basal views) of skull. [for these ‘views’,
only salient features and their evolutionary significance, if any, to be studied].
iv) Post-cranial osteology: vertebral column, pectoral girdle, thoracic cage, pelvic girdle, upper
and lower extremity bones – name, number and features.
v) Determination of side of the bones – scapula, clavicle, humerus, radius, ulna, innominate, femur, tibia,
fibula.
vi) Human dentition (basic structural features) and dental formula (deciduous and permanent) and
evolutionary significance (brief outline)
vii) Identification of age and sex from adult skull and pelvis.
viii) Concepts and facts regarding skeletal modifications as a consequence of evolution; erect bipedalism,
grips.
ix) External morphological features of man (Hair, nose and eye) in relation to evolution

ANT-A-1-CC-1– P
Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Practical
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Human skeletal morphology
a. Identification of human skull bones: (frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, maxilla, zygomatic, ethmoid,
sphenoid, mandible). Sides to be identified for the paired bones.
b. Identification of human post-cranial bones: Vertebral column (atlas, axis, typical cervical, thoracic,
lumber, sacrum), sternum, clavicle, scapula, humerus, radius, ulna, innominate, femur, tibia, fibula. Sides
to be identified for the paired bones.
c. Identification of sex from skull and pelvis.
d. Identification of human deciduous and permanent teeth.

Readings

1. Jurmain R., Kilgore L., Trevathan W., Ciochon R.L. (2012). Introduction to Physical
Anthropology. Wadsworth Publ., USA
2. Krober A. L. (1948). Anthropology. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.
3.Stanford C., Allen J.S. and Anton S.C. (2010). Exploring Biological Anthropology. The
Essentials. Prentice Hall Publ, USA.
4. Scupin R. and DeCorse C. (1998). Anthropology : A global Perspective. Prentice Hall Inc.
USA.
5. Rastogi S and Shukla B. R. K. (2003). Laboratory Mannual of Physical Anthropology. Bharat
Book Center, Lucknow, India.
5. Mukherjee D., Mukherjee D. and Bharati. (2009). Laboratory Mannual for Biological
Anthropology. Asian Books Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, India.
6. Mitra S. (2001). Anatomy. Academic Press. Kolkatta, India.

ANT-A-1-CC 2- INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: 1st

Semester

ANT-A-1-CC-2- Th

UNIT I: Social and Cultural Anthropology

i. Emergence, history, divergence (sub-disciplines/sub-fields), flexibility, holism of
Anthropology; Social and Cultural Anthropology in relation to other disciplines;
Anthropology as Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary integration

ii. Society : (i) Kinship/status and Contract; (ii) Descent, Exchange and Transaction; (iii)
Social Fact (Durkheim), Social Structure (Structural-Functionalism and Structuralism),
Social Organisation (Firth and if any other), Institution (Malinowski), Social System
(Gluckman and Parsons), Process (Turner) and Social Action (Weber), (iv) Network
Society (Castells)
iii. Culture: (i) General and particular, (ii) Set of Assumptions [e.g. Keesing 1974]

UNIT II: Elements of society and Culture

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 i. Kinship:
a. Classical Kinship Theories: Evolution, Descent and Alliance [Evolutionist, Structure-
Functionalist, Structuralist, neo-evolutionist views]; Types and Terminology of
Kinship; Clan, Lineage, Segmentary Lineage System, Phratry and Moiety;
Relationship to inheritance, residence rules and other rights and duties
b. New Kinship Theories [Schneider, Overing, Strathern]
ii. Citizen [Definite Reference/DR: J. Holston 1999. RJónsdóttir 2016], Civil Society and
Nation-State [Definite Reference/DR Anthropological Ref: A Ferguson,. R. Layton and
C. Hann], Virtual Community [Ref: Escobar 1994, Kottak 1996, and Wilson and Peterson]
Imagined Community [Definite Reference/DR.: B. Anderson]
iii. Marriage and Family: Features, Types, Rules, Diversity and Change
iv. Religion: Forms (Animism, Animatism, Manaism, Polytheism, Monotheism, ), Shaman,
Totem, Taboo
v. Economic Aspect: Modes of Production. Distribution and Consumption, Concept of Value
[DR:David Graeber, 2001: first Chapter]
vi. Law and Political Organisation in Anthropology
vii. Cultural And Social Change: Diffusion, Innovation, Acculturation, Assimilation,
Evolution, Transformation, ‘Structural change’, Hybridization, Cultural Lag, Planned
Change, Social Movement

ANT-A-1-CC-2-P
Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology [Practical]
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UNIT I. Units, Arguments and Approaches in Social and Cultural Anthropology
(i) Logic [Introduction and Three principles: Induction, Deduction and Abduction] (ii)
Understanding and Interpretation (iii) Essence-Construct (e.g. ethnicity and gender), (iv)
Objective (object-like integrated, inherited or learned by enculturation/socialisation), Subjective
(active construction of meanings or symbols or Constructivism), and Intersubjective (shared
between subjects as construction of meanings), (v) Emic, Etic, Both Emic and Etic (vi)
Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods (vii) Triangulation

UNIT II. Individual/Group Exploration of any phenomenon in everyday context in one or

more sites using techniques of fieldwork in Anthropology (minimum 5 days of work)
I. Conversation, empathy, rapport, Chit-chat, Interviews, Observation, Listening,
Transcription, Types of Notes and Memos, photographs
II. Interaction with some closely available individuals with focus around the phenomenon
chosen
III. Developing a schedule and a set of semi-structured questions around the phenomenon
explaining the justifications and using it for quantitative and qualitative information to
record
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IV. Recording of the information, taking photographs and transcription with notes and memos
V. Reporting the findings using transcribed narratives [handwritten equally permissible]and
at least tabular calculation of quantifiable information
VI. presentation and viva-voce

Readings

Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of
Nationalism. London, UK: Verso.
Barnard Alan and Jonathan Spencer. 2002. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural.
Anthropology, edited by, London and New York: Routledge,
Beattie J. (1964). Other Cultures. London: Cohen & West Limited
Bernard, H. Russell. (1998). Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. Walnut Creek, CA:
AltaMira Press.
Creswell, John W. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches,
4th ed. Inc, Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2013b.
Graeber, David (2001): Toward an anthropological theory of value: The false coin of our own
dreams. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Gutmann Thomas. 2013. Theories of contract and the concept of autonomy* Working Papers of
the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics. Münster
Hanoch Dagan and Elizabeth S Scott. 2016. Reinterpreting the Status–Contract Divide The Case
of Fiduciaries
Ingold Tim, ed. 1997. Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social
Life. New. York: Routledge.
Keesing M. 1974 Theories of culture. Annual Review of Anthropology. 3:73-97

Keesing, Roger M. and Andrew J. Strathern. 1998. Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary

Perspective, 3rd ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Kockelman, Paul. 2007. From status to contract revisited: Value, temporality, circulation and
subjectivity Anthropological Theory. Vol 7(2): 151–176
Layton Robert. 2004. Civil Society and Social Cohesion –A Reassessment Max Planck Institute
for Social Anthropology Working Papers. Working Paper No. 63
Rapport, Nigel and Joanna Overing. 2000. Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
London and New York: Routledge.
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Ritzer, George. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Edited., 2007 Blackwell Publishing
Ltd.
Schultz, Emily A. and Robert H. Lavenda. 2013. Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the
Human Condition. 9th Edition. Oxford University Press.
Trautmann, Thomas R. India and the Study of Kinship Terminologies L’HOMME 154-155 /
2000, pp. 559 – 572.
Lewellen. Ted C. (2003) Types of Preindustrial Political Systems”, in Political anthropology. An
introduction, pp. 15-42.

ANT-A-2-CC -3 INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY:

2nd Semester

ANT-A-2-CC -3-Th

UNIT I. Basic concepts and a brief history of archaeology, with special emphasis on
prehistoric studies
a] Relation between these fields – their aim and scope, interesting fields of research. Relevance of
palaeoanthropology and archaeology in anthropology, with special emphasis on prehistory.

b]Outlines of the antiquarian stage, Three Age Paradigm, descriptive phase, New archaeology,
post processual archaeology are to be mentioned). The concept of culture in archaeology, social
archaeology, economic prehistory.

UNIT II. Methods of studying prehistoric archaeology

Conjunctive approach, Environmental archaeology, Ethno archaeology, Experimental
archaeology (One specific example of works done by using these methods should be given).

ANT-A-2-CC -3 – P

Archaeological Anthropology: Practical

a) Tool making technologies to be studied in details

b) Causes of differences in tool typo-technology in Europe and India should be mentioned.
c) Identification of the forms of raw material: Cobble core, flake, flake-blade, true blade,
microblade, ground and polished
d) Procedure of drawing tools – 2 core, 2 flake, 2 flake blade, 2 blade, 2 ground and polished
tools

References
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• Addington, Lucile R. 1986 Lithic illustration: drawing flaked stone artifacts for publication.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Binford, Lewis R. 1962 Archaeology as anthropology. American Antiquity. Vol 28 pp
217-225.
• Bordes, Francois. 1968 The old stone age New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Childe, V.G. 1956 Piecing together the past: the interpretation of archaeological data.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Clarke, D.L. 1963 Archaeology: the loss of innocence. Antiquity vol. 47 pp 6-8.
• Daniel, Glyn E. 1975 150 Years of archaeology. London: Duckworth.
• Daniel, Glyn E. 1981 A short history of archaeology. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Gamble, Clive. 2002 Archaeology: the basics. London: Routledge.
• Hole, F. and R.F.Heizer. 1973 Introduction to prehistoric archaeology. New York: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston.
• Ian Shaw and Robert Jameson (editors) 2002 A Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing.
• Renfrew C. and Paul Bahn. 1991 Theories, methods and practices. London: Thames and
Hudson.
• Trigger, Bruce. 1989 A history of archaeological thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.

ANT-A-2-CC-4 FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN ORIGIN & EVOLUTION: 2nd

Semester

ANT-A-2-CC-4-Th

UNIT I. The study of Primates

1) The living primates:

a) Definition of the order ‘Primates’ (Linnaeus, 1758; Mivart, 1873).
b) General characters of the order Primates and the ‘evolutionary trends’ (locomotion, diet,
dentition, brain, , and behaviour); theory of arboreal adaptation (outline idea).
c) Classification of the order Primates up to the Family level, after,
i) Simpson, 1965, and modified by Simons, 1971 (classical gradualistic); ii) Szalay and Delson,
1979 (cladistic approach), Groves et al., 2005
d) Strepsirrhine, Haplorrhine and anthropoidea: general characteristics and distributions of the
families.
e) The Monkeys: New World Monkeys (Platyrrhines) and Old World Monkeys (Catarrhines) –
definitions and distinctive features, distribution, habitat and ecology (as two contrasting groups).
f) Living anthropoid apes: Asians and African – their comparative morphology and anatomy,
distribution, habitat; their comparisons with modern man.
g) Modes of Primate locomotion with special reference to evolution.
h) Primate behaviour: brief concepts of the terms - core-area, home range, dominance,
grooming, male-female sexual bond, allomothering (with reference to Baboon and Chimpanzee).
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2) The Fossil Primates— the background of human evolution:
i) Oligocene anthropoids with special reference to Apidium, Propliopithecus, and
Aegyptopithecus.
ii) Miocene hominoids: Proconsul-Dryopithecus, Sivapithecus-Ramapithecus, and
Gygantopithecus.
[N.B.- For the above fossil specimens, their chronology, environmental background, distribution,
salient anatomical features, and phylogeny to be known as outlines of the whole process of
evolution.]
iii) Outline of the Pongid-Hominid split; major hypothetical lines of primate evolution from
Parapithecidae to Australopithecinae. Orrorin tugenesis
iv) Proto-hominids of Pliocene and Plio-Pleistocene: Australopithecines (Australopithecus
afarensis, Ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus boisei and
Australopithecus robustus)
i. Emergence of genus Homo : H. habilis, H. erectus (Java, Peking, and Turkana)
ii. Emergence of Archaic Homo sapiens : Neanderthal (La-Chapple-aux–saints and Tabun),
Narmada Man
iii. Anatomically modern Homo sapiens: Cro Magnon, Grimaldi, Chancelade
iv. Anatomocally modern Homo sapiens and their dispersal

ANT-A-2-CC-4– P
Fundamentals of Human Origin & Evolution: Practical

UNIT I. Living anthropoid skull

Identification of anthropoid skulls (Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orang utan and Gibbon). In the absence
of original specimen, cast models or appropriate photographs may be utilized in the laboratory

UNIT II. Fossil anthropoid skull

i. Identification of fossil apes (Parapithecus mandible, Dryopithecus mandibular fragment,).

Cast models or appropriate photographs may be utilized.
ii. Identification of protohominid --- Australopithecus africanus.

UNIT III. Palaeoanthropology

Drawing and identification of fossil hominids. One typical specimen of H. habilis, H. erectus
(Java and Peking man), Archaic Home sapiens, Neanderthal (La-Chapple-aux-saints), H. sapiens
(Cro Magnon) (Appropriate photographs may be utilised).

Readings
1. Jurmain R., Kilgore L., Trevathan W., Ciochon R.L. (2012). Introduction to Physical
Anthropology. Wadsworth Publ., USA.
2. Standford C, Allen J. S. And Anton S. C. (2013). Biological Anthropology : tThe Natural
History of Mankind. Eastern Economy Edition, Prentice Hall Publ, USA.

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 3. Stein L. P. and Rowe B. M. (2000). Physical Anthropology. McGraw Hill Pub, USA.
4. Conroy G C. (1997). Reconstructing Human Origins : A Modern Synthesis.Norton, NY,
USA.
5. Day M. (1965). Guide to Fossil Man. World Pub. Co. , Cleaveland.
6. Le Gross Clark W. E. (1971). The Antecedents of Man. Edinburgh University Press.
7. J. R. Napier J. R. and Napier P. H. (1994). The Natural History of primates. The MIT
Press.
8. Buettner-Janusch, J. (1966). Origins of Man: Physical Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., New York, London, Sydney.
9. Seth P. K. and Seth S. (1986). The Primates. Northern Book Centre, New Delhi,
Allahabad.
10. Hooton E. A. (1954). Up from the Ape. The Macmillan Co. NY, USA.
11. Groves C.P. Wilson D.E. Reeder D.M. 2005. Order primates. Mammal species of the
world, a taxonomic and geographic reference , 3rd edn.Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, pp. 111–184.

ANT-A-3-CC-5 ECOLOGY AND CULTURE IN THE PAST : 3rd Semester

ANT-A-3-CC-5-Th

UNIT I.
Environment, Biome, Culture: Climatic fluctuations of Pleistocene in Europe, Africa & India—
their probable causes. Biome -habitat-culture model after Grahame Clark.

UNIT II
i. Distribution of Cultures in Pleistocene Time
a. Lower Palaeolithic Culture: – Brief idea about regional variations of Paleolithic cultures
of Europe to be given (with special emphasis on Western Europe). South-East Asia:
Patjitanian and Zhoukoudien are to be mentioned in brief. Early Stone Age cultures of
East Africa (brief outline). Olduvai Gorge and KoobiFora sites are to be studied in details.
Laetoli and Hadar are to be mentioned in brief. Sub-Saharan Africa – Transvaal culture
(Early Stone Age). Indian Subcontinent – North, Central, West, South and Eastern
regional cultures to be highlighted with one type/important site specification. In all these,
not only the associated evidences, but also prehistoric cultures of the respective regions
are to be generally treated.
b. Middle Palaeolithic Culture: Europe – Middle Paleolithic cultures (Mousterian Culture).
Middle Stone Age culture of Africa (salient features). India- Middle Palaeolithic cultures.
c. Upper Palaeolithic Culture: Upper Palaeolithic cultures of Europe. Indian subcontinent-
Upper Palaeolithic cultures. [Diversifying cultural life in late Pleistocene to be
emphasized]

ii. Further Spread of cultures in Holocene times:

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 Europe – European Mesolithic. (Climatic adaptations & formation of ecological niches to
be highlighted– Maglemosean, Tardenoisean, Kitchen Midden Cultures). Mesolithic India
(Teri sites, Bagor, Langhnaj, Birbhanpur, Sarai Nahar Rai, Bhimbetka,. Near East –
Beginnings of food production – broad spectrum economy to be outlined with special
emphasis on Natufian.

Neolithic: Era of food production – theories to be mentioned in brief (Childe, Flannery,

Braidwood).Importance of Near East in food production to be outlined, with special
emphasis on Jarmo, Jericho, Hassuna, Halaf. Basic features of Neolithic in Near East,
Europe and South Asia /India. Indian Neolithic: the following sites are to be studied:
Burzahom, Deojali Hading, Kuchai, Sanganakallu, Tekkalakota, Budihal
iii. Earliest Civilizations: Concept/ features of urbanization: Features of urbanization according to
Braidwood and Childe. Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations- brief ideas. Harappan civilizations
– to be treated in details. Chalcolitihic India- classification and characters. Ideas about urban &
village settlement in Indian subcontinent. Importance of pottery in Chalocolithic & post Harappan
times in India as identifiers of different cultures. Copper Hoard cultures.

ANT-A-3-CC-5-P
i. Morphometric analysis Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic tools (any two tools from each
cultural age). Graph papers must be used for this purpose.
ii. Tools to be identified in terms of cultural periods.

References
• Addington, Lucile R. 1986 Lithic illustration: drawing flaked stone artifacts for publication.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Allchin, B and Raymond Allchin. 1983 The rise of civilization in India and Pakistan.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bender, Barbara. Farming in prehistory.
• Braidwood, R.J. and L.S. Braidwood eds. 1983 Prehistoric archaeology along the Zagros
flanks. Chicago: Oriental Institute.
• Childe, V.G. 1936 Man makes himself. London: Watts.
• Clark, D. Prehistoric Europe: the economic basis.
• Fagan, Brian M. 2004 People of the earth: an introduction to world prehistory. Singapore:
Pearson Education.
• Fagan, Brian M. 2000 In the beginning: introduction to archaeology. New Jersey: Prentice
Hall.
• Flannery, K.V. 1965 The ecology of early food production in Mesopotamia. Science vol. 147
pp1247-1256.
• Sankalia, H.D. 1974 Prehistory and protohistory of India and Pakistan. Poona: Deccan
College.
• Settar, S. and R. Korisettar. 2004. Indian Archaeology in Retrospect: Prehistory - The Early
Archaeology of South Asia v. 1. Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors.
• Settar, S. and R. Korisettar. 2004. Indian Archaeology in Retrospect: Protohistory
archaeology of the Harrappan Civilization v. 2. Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors.
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• Singh, U. A. 2009. History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the
12th Century. Delhi: Pearson Education India

ANT-A-3-CC-6: HUMAN ECOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF GROWTH AND

NUTRITION : 3rd Semester

ANT-A-3-CC-6-Th

UNIT I
Human ecology
Differences between evolutionary ecology, and Biological human ecology, Human
Adaptability Programme: definitions of the terms— environment, ecology, stressors,
adaptation, adaptability, Gloger’s Rule, homoeostasis, acclimatization, human biological
responses to heat, cold and altitude (Gloger’s, Allen’s and Bergmann’s rules),

UNIT II
Cultural Anthropology of Ecology
i. Approaches to Ecology and environment with :Examples of tribal/ethnic, Peasant, and
urban communities
i. Technology and Livelihood and small-scale economy: anthropological understanding of
technology with examples (e.g. foraging/gathering-hunting, horticultural, pastoral
economy, agricultural economy)

UNIT III. Human Biology

i) i) Human growth: definitions and brief outlines of the following terms: growth,
development and maturation; concepts of major growth curves (Brief Introduction) —
Scammon’s, distance, velocity and acceleration; methods of growth study: longitudinal,
cross-sectional and mixed cross-sectional; ii) Human nutrition: food, diet, nutrition, and
metabolism (definitions only); the basic nutrients—micro-, and macronutrients—their
sources and utility; Nutritional disorders: over-, and under-nutrition, malnutrition—their
evaluation and general consequences. Nutritional adaptation in man

ANT-A-3-CC-6-P Craniometry and Osteometry

Students should be trained in identifying landmarks on skull, taking the measurements (on at least 3
skulls) following standard methods, using the following instruments: Martin’s sliding calliper, Martin’s
spreading calliper, measuring tape, mandibulometer, Martin’s vertical craniophore, Martin’s static
goniometer, Mollison’s attachable goniometer, Horizontal needle, spirit level, osteometric board.

UNIT –I
A. Linear measurements on three crania:
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i. Craniometry 1.Maximum cranial length 2. Maximum cranial breadth 3.Least frontal
breadth 4.Maximum bizygomatic breadth 5.Greatest frontal breadth 6.Glabella-inion length
7.Nasion-inion length, 8.Nasion-basion length 9. Bi-maxillary breadth 10.Nasal length
11.Nasal breadth 12.Nasion prosthion length 13.Outer bi-orbital diameter 14.Inner bi-orbital
diameter 15. Inter orbital breadth16. Orbital breadth 17.Orbital height 18.Bi-mastoidal
breadth 19.Greatest occipital breadth 20.Bi-auricular breadth 21.Maxillo-alveolar length
22.Maxillo-alveolar breadth 23.Length of occipital foramen, 24.Breadth of occipital
foramen 25.Basillo-bregmatic height 26.Prosthion-basionlength 27.Frontal chord 28.Parietal
Chord 29.Occipital chord.

B. Curvilinear or arc measurements on three crania

Frontal arc 2.Parietal arc 3.Occipital arc 4.Sagittal cranial arc. 5. Horizontal circumference.
C. Measurements on mandible:(on at least 3 mandibles).
1. Bi-condylar breadth2. Bi-gonial breadth 3. Length of mandible.
D. Angular measurements on three crania:
1. Metopic angle 2.Facial profile angle 3. Nasal profile angle 4.Profile angle of the nasal roof
5.Alveolar profile angle 6.Calvarial base angle 7. Frontal angle of Schwalbe
8. Bregma angle of Schwalbe 9. Lambda angle of Schwalbe.

UNIT II
Osteometry: (Measurements on long bones)
Students should be trained to take the following measurements on 3 long bones of each
type (Humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia).
1. Maximum length, 2. Maximum circumference of the shaft, 3. Minimum circumference of
the shaft.
4. Diameter (antero-posterior and medio-lateral) of:
a) The proximal end of the shaft
b) The distal end of the shaft

Readings :
1. Singh I. P. and Bhasin M.K. (1989). Anthropometry: A Laboratory Manual on Biological
Anthropology. Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Chawri Bazar, Delhi.
2. Rastogi S and Shukla B. R. K. (2003). Laboratory Mannual of Physical Anthropology. Bharat
Book Center, Lucknow, India.
3. Wilder H. H. (1920). A Laboratory Mannual of Anthropology. P. Blakistens Son and Co. USA.
4. Weiner J. S. And Lourie J.A. (1981). Practical human Biology. Academic Press, NY, USA.
5. Bogin B. (1999) Patterns of human growth. Cambridge University Press.
6. Cameron N and Bogin B. (2012) Human Growth and Development. Second edition, Academic
press Elsevier.
7. Malina RM, Bouchard C, Oded B. (2004) Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity. Human
Kinetics.
8. Mann J and Truswell A. S. (2007). Essentials of Human Nutrition. Edited Vol. Oxford
University Press. UK.
9.WHO / FAO. (2003). Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic diseases. WHO technical
Report Series 916. Geneva, World Health Organization.

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10. Harrison GA, Tanner JM, Pibeam DR, Baker PT. (1988). Human Biology. Oxford University
Press.
11. Lohman T. G. Roche A. F. and Martorell R. (1988). Anthropometric Standardization
Reference Mannual. Human Kinetic Books. Champaign, IL.

ANT-A-3-CC-7. THEORIES OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY : 3rd Semester

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UNIT I. Anthropological Theories
i. Classical Theories in Anthropology I: a) 19th Century Evolutionism (E. B. Tylor, L. H.
Morgan), b) Historical Particularism and Cultural Relativism (Franz Boas), c)
Diffusionism (German-Austrian, British School and American School), d) Functionalism
(Malinowski), e) Structural Functionalism (Radcliffe-Brown), e) Culture and Personality
theories
ii. Classical Theories in Anthropology II: a) Neoevolutionism (Universal Evolutionism of
Leslie White and Multilinear Evolutionism of Julian Steward), b) Structuralism (Levi-
Strauss), c) Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology, d) Symbolic and Interpretative
Anthropology (Clifford Geertz, Victor Turner)
iii. Critical, Postcolonial, Postmodern and Post-Structural Anthropology (overview)

UNIT II: Anthropological Approaches to

ii. Community (Peasants, Tribal/Ethnic, Religious), Class (Functionalist, Marxist, Weberian),
Gender (Functionalist, Constructivist and Feminist),
iii. Material Culture
a. Why Things matter: [Definite Reference/DR.: Miller, D. 1998. Why some things
matter. In Miller, D. (ed.), Material Cultures. Why Some Things Matter. University
College London Press, London.
Definite Reference/DR: Appadurai, Arjun, ed. Introduction. The Social Life of
Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986.]
b. Theoretical Approaches to material Culture:[DR:Chapter 1 and 4. Berger, Arthur
Asa, What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture, 2nd ed., Walnut Creek:
Left Coast. Press, 2014.]
iv. Power
a. Theories of Power: [DR: 1st Chapter. Sadan, Elisheva (1997). Empowerment and
Community Planning: Theory and Practice of People Focused Social Solutions. Tel Aviv:
Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishers [in Hebrew]. Translated from Hebrew by Richard
Flantz Gaventa. John. 2003. Power after Lukes: An Overview of Theories of Power since
Lukes and their application to development. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies,
Political anthropology: an introduction / Ted C. Lewellen. 2003.]

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 b. Bureaucracies: The Anthropology of Power-Wielding Bureaucracies [DR:Josiah McC
Heyman. Human Organization; Winter 2004; 63, 4;487-500].
c. Hegemony: [DR: Chapt. 14. Nugent and Joan Vincent (eds.) A Companion to the
Anthropology of Politics. New York and London: Blackwell. 2007]
d. Militarisation: [DR:Chapt. 20. Nugent and Joan Vincent (eds.) A Companion to the
Anthropology of Politics. New York and London: Blackwell. 2007.]
v. Religion
a. The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category
b. Studying Religion Anthropologically: Definitions and Theories

Definite Reference/DR:.
Brian. Morris, 2006. Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Jack David Eller. Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate. 2007. London:
Routledge.
Talal Asad 1982. The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category, in Genealogies of
RdiKioll; Discipline alld Reasons of Power ill Christianit)’ alii/ I slam (Baltimon:, M[): Johns
Hopkins University Press, 199])), pp. 27-54.
vi. Cities
a. Origins of Cities and Early Approaches to city: [Childe, Mumford, Tonnies, Wirth,
Redfield, The Chicago School, The Community Study Approach, Interaction (Whyte,
Jacobs, Goffman), Anthropology of urban poverty; Network research, Anthropology In/Of
the City ] (Ref. Caves, Parker, Hutchison)
b. The Foundations of Urban Theory: Weber and Simmel (Definite Reference/DR:.
Parker)
c. Gentrification; Homelessness; Exclusion/Marginalisation; Ethnicity (Ref. Caves, Parker,
Hutchison and Bagchi)
Ref:
Bagchi, S. S.2014 Urban Marginalisation in the Third World: Issues and Problems. Delhi: Inter-
India Publications (Ch 1)
Manuel, Castells. [1996] 2002. “Conclusion: Urban Sociology in the 21st Century,” in The
Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory, ed. Ida Susser, 390-406. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Ray Hutchison 2010. Encyclopedia of Urban Studies . California: Sage.
Roger W. Caves, (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge,. London/New York,
http://shora.tabriz.ir/Uploads/83/cms/user/File/657/E_Book/Urban%20Studies/Encyclopedia%20o
f%20the%20City.pdf .
Simon Parker. 2004. UrbanTheory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City London and
New York: Routledge.

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UNIT I: Tools of Analyzing Practice of Culture and Society

i. (a) Phenomenology: Code, Category, Theme, (b) Grounded Theory: from sampling analysis
through coding, (c) Case Study according to Robert Stake, (d) Focus Group
ii. Techniques of data collection:: Interviews; Observations; Conversation; Documents and/ or texts;
Triangulation,
iii. Basic Statistics: Frequency distribution, scales of measurements, variables, sampling
UNIT II: Group/Individual Study of any phenomenon in everyday context with mixed
methods or ethnographic approach; each study in one or more real/virtual sites (preferably
not more than two, at any convenient space of the student/s and not during regular class
hours of the college,) (data collection not below 6 days)
(a) The Options of Data Collection: Conversation, empathy, rapport, unstructured, semi-
structured, depth and structured interview, focus group, observation with focus around the
issue/s under study
(b) Developing theoretical sensibilities about the data
(c) Developing sets of questions around the phenomenon
(d) Both quantifiable and qualitative data from the field and data from previously worked
sources to relate each other.
(e) Recording of the data, Transcription of the data, Use of analysis techniques with notes,
photographs
(f) Reporting the findings using transcribed narratives and tabular calculation of quantifiable
information
(g) Focus on identification of own experience of stranger-familiar, outsider-insider, explorer-
learner, own cultural bias-their cultural bias
(h) Seminar presentation and viva-voce

Readings

Baldwin John R.. Sandra L. Faulkner Michael L. Hecht Sheryl L. Lindsley, Stanislaw. Eds 2006.
Redefining Culture Perspectives across the Disciplines. London: Lawrence. Erlbaum,
Barnard Alan and Jonathan Spencer. 2002. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural.
Anthropology, edited by, London and New York: Routledge,
de González,Laura Tubelle and Thomas McIlwraith 2017 Perspectives: An Open Invitation to
Cultural Anthropology Edited by Nina Brown, American Anthropological Association
Eriksen Thomas Hylland and Finn Sivert Nielsen (2001) A History of Anthropology. London:
Pluto .

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Eriksen Thomas Hylland.. 2001. SMALL PLACES, LARGE ISSUES An Introduction to Social
and Cultural Anthropology SECOND EDITION
Gaillard, Gérald. 2004. The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists Translated by Peter James
Bowman. Routledge
Haviland W. A.(2008). Cultural Anthropology. 4th Edition. New York, Holt, Rinehout and
Winston.
Ingold, Tim. Ed. (1996) Key Debates in Anthropology London andNew York: Routledge.
McGee R.J. and Warms R.L. (1996) Anthropological Theories: An Introductory History.
Moore M. and Sanders T. (2006). Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology,
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Payne, Michael and Jessica Rae Barbera. 2010. A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. 2"
ed. Ed., West Wessex: Wiley-Blackwell.
Ritzer, George. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Edited., 2007 Blackwell Publishing
Ltd.
Spradley, James and David W. McCurdy. 2012. Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural
Anthropology, 14th edition. Boston: Pearson Press.
Vered Amit, ed., 2004, Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
London and New York: Routledge.
Stocking, George “Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology.” In George Stocking,
The Ethnographer’s Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology (Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1992).

ANT-A-4-CC-8. HUMAN GENETICS AND POPULATION BIOLOGY : 4th Semester

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UNIT I: The genetic material:

i) The chromosome: structure of human chromosomes – general structure: size and shape;
physical structure: nucleosome-solenoid model; chemical structure: histones and nonhistones,
protein,. Normal human karyotype; classification of chromosomes – Denver system.
Chromosome banding (brief outline)
ii) The nucleic acids: DNA – the structure: double helix. The genetic code; DNA replication;
Structure of RNA (in contrast to DNA), types of RNA: mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA – their
functions. Types of DNA in human genome: unique DNA sequences, satellite DNA, repetitive
DNA sequences (only basic concepts and significance).

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 iii) The Gene: its structure and organization – introns and exons (Expression of gene – brief
outline); definitions and basic structural features of typical human gene (Haemoglobin).
iv) Chromosomal abnormalities: Concepts of Ploidy numerical abnormalities with special
reference to the etiology and clinical features of Down’s, Turner’s, and Klinefelter’s syndromes;
structural abnormalities: brief introduction to translocation, deletion, inversion, duplication, ring-
chromosome, and isochromosome.
UNIT 2: Human Genetics:
i. Introduction: Definition, aims and applications of human genetics and its relevance in
anthropology.
ii. Methods of human genetics with special reference to family study, twin study.
iii. Mendelian inheritance: Mendel’s law and its application to man; modes of inheritance of
Mendelian traits in man—autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive; sex-linked inheritance
(with reference to common examples)- X-linked dominant and recessive inheritance in man.
Sex chromatin and Lyonization.
iv. Co dominant inheritance, multiple alleleism, polymorphism
v. Alteration of Mendelian ratios: brief introductions to— lethal alleles, incomplete
dominance, epistasis, pleiotropy, sex-limited and sex-controlled traits, penetrance and
expressivity, genetic heterogeneity, linkage.
vi. Inheritance of complex traits: concepts of complex traits, continuous and discontinuous traits,
quantitative traits; threshold value; examples of multifactorial and polygenic traits in humans:
stature and dermatoglyphics.

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Genetics
Students should be acquainted to undertake the following tests or observations and record the
results in the laboratory notebook:
i: Dermatoglyphics: candidates should be trained in taking the prints of palm and fingertips
of, at least 3 subjects.
a) In case of fingerprints, pattern types should be identified and the Pattern Intensity Index
(PII) is to be calculated. In case of palm prints, a, b, c, d, and t triradii identification and
estimation of atd angle.
ii: ABO and Rh (D) Blood groupings: Students should be taught in determining ABO and
Rh (D) Blood groups of at least 5 subjects following standard technique .
iii: PTC / PTU tasting ability: Students should be trained to test PTC/PTU tasting ability in at
least 10 subjects, following standard technique.
iv: Testing of Colour vision (Colour blindness): Ishihara’s chart (1979) should be used and
tests should be demonstrated as suggested. Inference should be recorded on at least 5 subjects.

Readings :
1. Lewis R. (2009). Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications 9th Edition. The McGraw−Hill
Companies, Inc.
2. Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. and Bodmer, W.F (1971). The Genetics of Human Population. San
Francisco: Freeman .
3. Snustad D. P. and Simmons M.J. (2006). Principles of Genetics, Fourth Edition, John Wiley &
Sons USA, Hoboken NJ.
4. Vogel F. and Motulsky A.G. (1996). Human Genetics. Springer, 3rd revised edition.
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5. Stern C. (1970). Principal of Human Genetics. Freedman, San Francisco.
6. Mange E. J. and Mange A. P. (1994). Basic human Genetics. Sinaurer Associates, Inc, USA.
(Indian Reprint edtn by Rastogi Publications, Meerut.
7. Cummings M.R. (2011). Human Heredity: Principles and Issues. Ninth Edition. Brooks/Cole,
Cengage Learning.
8. Weiner J.S. and. Lourie J.A .1981. Practical human biology, London ; New York : Academic
Press

ANT-A-4-CC-9: ANTHROPOLOGY OF INDIA 4th Semester

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UNIT I Contribution in Social and Cultural Anthropology

a. André Beteillé: . DR: [a]. Sripuram: A Village in Tanjore District. The Economic Weekly.
Annual Number. February: [b]. Varna and Jati. Sociological Bulletin, 45 (1) March 1996
b. Bernard S. Cohn . DR:[a]History and Anthropology: The State of Play: Comparative Studies in
Society and History, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 198-221; [b] Law and the Colonial State in India;
Representing Authority in Victorian India(Apr., 1980)
c. F. G. Bailey: . DR:Closed Social Stratification in India. Archives européennes de sociologie
4:107–124. 1963
d. Kathleen Gough, . DR:Anthropology: Child of Imperialism, Monthly Review 19, 11. April 1968
e. McKim Marriott: . DR:Kishan Garhi Village, A Generation of Change: Technology, Society,
and Culture. National Council of Associations for International Studies, Pittsburgh; 1972
f. M. N. Srinivas: [a] Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India 1952: Chapter Two
Social Structure; Village Studies The Economic Weekly May 29, 1954; [b]The Myth of Self-
Sufficiency of the Indian Village The Economic Weekly September 10, 1960.
g. Nicholas B. Dirks. . DR:The invention of caste: civil society in colonial India', Social Analysis,
vol. 25, pp. 47-8. 1989.
h. Nirmal Kumar Bose : . DR:Surajit Chandra. Sinha. The Heritage of Nirmal Kumar Bose: Indian.
Civilization : Structure and change. 1993
i. Ralph W. Nicholas. . DR:The Goddess Sitala and Epidemic Smallpox in Bengal. . The Journal of
Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1., pp. 21-44(Nov., 1981)
j. Robert Redfield and Milton Singer: . DR: The Cultural Role of Cities: Economic Development
and Cultural Change, Vol. 3, No. 1, The Role of Cities in Economic Development and Cultural
Change, Part 1, pp. 53-73(Oct., 1954)
k. Tarak Chandra Das (1898-1964): . DR:A Forgotten Anthropologist Science and Culture,
January-February. Abhijit Guha. pp. 40-46, 2012.

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 l. Verrier Elwin: . DR:Verrier Elwin’s Field Methods and Fieldwork in India: An Appraisal By
Bhabagrahi Misra. 1971
UNIT II. Contribution to Archaeological Anthropology
i) European Orientalism (17th and 18th Century): Sir William Jones and the creation of Asiatic
Society
ii) Classification of Indian Archaeology (Verma, 1997)
• Period – I (1840 – 1940) Pre Sankalian era
• Period – II (1940 – 1990) Sankalian era
• Period – III (1990 onwards) Post Sankalian era
iii) Brief outline of the contributions of Meadows Taylor, T. T. Newbold, Robert Bruce Foote,
Cunnigham, Sir John Marshal, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Rai Bahadur Dayaram Sahni, De Terra and
Paterson, H. D. Sankalia, Dharani Sen, V. D. Krishnaswamy, V. N. Misra, K. Paddaya, D. K.
Bhattacharrya, Asok Ghosh, Ranjana Ray, V. S. Shinde, Bishnupriya Basak and S. Pappu.

UNIT III. Contribution to Biological Anthropology

Pranab Kumar Ganguly: The Negritos of little Andaman island: A primitive people facing
extinction. Indian Museum Bulletin (1975), Voume X, No. 1, pp: 7-27.
Amitabha Basu: Basu Amitabha and Ranjan Gupta (eds.) 1989. Human Biology of Asian
Highland Populations in Global Context. Indian Anthropological Society, Calcutta. (First
Chapter).
Debaprasad Mukherjee: Mukherjee, D. P. (1966), Inheritance of total number of triradii on
fingers, palms and soles. Annals of Human Genetics, 29: 349–353. doi:10.1111/j.1469-
1809.1966.tb00530.x
Amulya Ratan Banerjee: Banerjee A. R. (1999) Selection and Blood group Polymorphism in
India. Man in India. 69: 217-260
Papia Banerjee: Banerjee, P. (1969) Birth weight of the Bengali new born: effect of the
economic position of the mother. Annals of Human Genetics, 33: 99–108. doi:10.1111/j.1469-
1809.1969.tb01635.x
Asit Baran Das Chaudhury: Das-Chaudhuri, A. B. (1976), Genetic basis of hair medulla by
twin study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 44: 51–53. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330440107
Tulika Sen: Sen Tulika: 1953: Reproductive life of some Indian Women. Man in India. 33: 31-
54.

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UNIT I
Project work on archaeology at present

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Visit to nearby locations. Study of any ancient monuments/ buildings/ temple etc (or any ancient
features like motifs art, pottery) in urban context. Changing context regarding style, symbol,
function, purpose, changing worldview —any work of cultural resource management, salvage
archaeology or urban archaeology or industrial archaeology may be undertaken.
UNIT II
Submission of individual report on identification of public spaces [i.e. at least one among club,
tea-stall, cafe, temple, mosque, church, market, shops/stores, rowak, park, playground, ward
office, any public assembly corner and so on] in a residential neighbourhood, plotting them in the
google snapshot or other map, recording responses of at least fifteen [15] un-related separate
gendered residents about their knowledge, attitude and practice regarding the identified public
places and analytical narration of five major problems of the respondents’ self-identified
neighbourhood.

Readings
Coon C.s and E. E. Hunt, Jr. 1965. The Living Races of Man. New York: Alfred A.Knopf
Bhasin MK, Watter H and Danker-Hopfe H. (1994). People of India – An Investigation of
Biological variability in Ecological, Ethno-economic and Linguistic Groups. Kamla Raj
Enterprises, Delhi
Lopez DS. (1995). Religions of India in Practice. Princeton University Press
Gupta D. Social Stratification. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Guha BS. (1931). The racial attributes of people of India. In: Census of India, 1931, vol I, Part III
(BPO, Simla)
Trautmann TR (2011). India: Brief history of Civilization. Oxford University Press : Delhi
Haddon AC. (1929). Races of man. Cambridge University, London.
Kapoor A.K. (1992). Genetic Diversity among Himalayan Human Populations. M/S Vinod
Publishers, Jammu
Majumdar DN. (1901). Races and Culture of India. Asia Publishing House, Bombay
Guha B.S. (1931). The racial attributes of people of India. In : Census of India, 1931, vol I, Part
III (BPO, Simla)
Malhotra K.C. (1978). Morphological Composition of people of India. J. Human Evolution.
Chakrabarti, D. K. (1982) The Development of Archaeology in the Indian Subcontinent. World
Archaeology Vol. 13, No. 3, Regional Traditions of Archaeological Research II (Feb., 1982), pp. 326-344
Paddayya, K. and Basak, B. (2017) Prehistoric Research in the Indian Subcontinent: A Reappraisal and
New Directions: Delhi: Ratna Sagar Private Limited
Paddayya, K. 2013. Essays in History of Archaeology: Themes, Institutions and Personalities. Delhi:
Archaeological Survey of India.
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Settar, S. and R. Korisettar (eds). 2002. Indian Archaeology in Retrospect Prehistory Archaeology
of South Asia Vol. I. Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research and Manohar

ANT-A-4-CC-10 STUDY OF HUMAN POPULATION 4th Semester

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UNIT I: Population Genetics

i) Definition and concept of population, definition of population genetics, genotype and
allele frequencies, calculation of allele frequencies (MN and ABO blood groups); mating
systems—random, assortative mating, inbreeding (brief concepts).
ii) The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium—concepts and applications; the evolutionary forces:
a. Mutation: definition, causes and types, b. Selection: definition, Darwinian fitness,
heterozygote advantage (e.g., Sickle Cell Trait), and c. Migration and gene flow: only basic
concept of how these factors change gene frequency, d. Genetic drift: only introduction to
the basic concepts.

UNIT II: Human population variation: different approaches of classifying human populations:
typological, ecological (local, micro, and geographical), and clinal; definition and concept of the
term ‘Race’—historical background; broad racial groups of mankind: general physical features
and distribution; Racial criteria (Skin colour, nose, human scalp hair and eye form)

UNIT III: Contribution in Biological Anthropology

i.Racial elements in Indian population
ii.Critical appraisal of contribution of H. H. Risley, B. S. Guha, and S. S. Sarkar towards
understanding ethnic distinctness in the Indian populations
iii.Indian population diversity (ABO blood groups)

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Anthropometry.
Candidates should be trained in taking the following measurements on at least 3 living subjects,
identify the landmarks involved and know about the instruments (Martin’s Caliper sets, Martin’s
Anthropometer, Rod compass) used.

i. Measurements on head and face:

1. Maximum head length (stature) 2. Maximum head breadth 3. Least frontal breadth 4.Bi-
zygomatic breadth 5. Bi-gonial breadth 6.Head height (vertex-tragion) 7.Total height
(vertex-gnathion) 8. Nasal length 9.Nasal breadth 10.Nasal depth 11. Morphological
superior facial length 12. Morphological total facial length.

ii. Measurements on trunk and limbs:

a. 1.Height vertex 2. Height tragus 3.Height acromion 4.Height radiale 5. Height stylion
6.Height dactylion 7. Sitting height vertex 8.Bi-acromial diameter 9. Hand length 10.
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 Hand breadth 11.Footlength 12. Foot breadth (For item nos. 9 - 12, measurements on both
sides are to be taken), Body weight.
b. Skinfold measurements: biceps, triceps,
c. Physiological variables: Blood pressure (mercury sphygmomanometer and stethoscope)
iii. Indices:
a. Cephalic index 2. Nasal index 3.Facial index 4.Jugo-frontal index 5. Body Mass Index
(BMI)
b. Students should be trained in working out the values of mean, standard deviation, and
standard error of mean, with respect to the values of height vertex and body weight.

Readings :
1. Lewis R. (2009). Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications 9th Edition. The McGraw−Hill
Companies, Inc.
2. Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. and Bodmer, W.F (1971). The Genetics of Human Population. San
Francisco: Freeman
3. Snustad D. P. and Simmons M.J. (2006). Principles of Genetics, Fourth Edition, John Wiley &
Sons USA, Hoboken NJ
4. Relethford J.H. (2012). Human Population Genetics. Wiley-Blackwell, USA
5. Singh I. P. and Bhasin M.K. (1989). Anthropometry: A Laboratory Manual on Biological
Anthropology. Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Chawri Bazar, Delhi.
6. Rastogi S and Shukla B. R. K. (2003). Laboratory Mannual of Physical Anthropology. Bharat
Book Center, Lucknow, India.
7. Wilder H. H. (1920). A Laboratory Mannual of Anthropology. P. Blakistens Son and Co. USA.
8. Weiner J. S. And Lourie J.A. (1981). Practical human Biology. Academic Press, NY, USA.
9. Lohman T. G. Roche A. F. and Martorell R. (1988). Anthropometric Standardization Reference
Mannual. Human Kinetic Books. Champaign, IL.
10. Juan Comas. 1965. Manual of Physical Anthropology. Thomas, Springfield, Ill.

ANT-A-5-CC-11 ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE 5th Semester

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UNIT I
a) Forensic anthropology: principles and concepts of the discipline; evidences in forensic
anthropology: serological, skeletal remains and fingerprint
b) Genetic counselling: Definition, aim, method (brief outline), Thalassemia screening
Biosocial anthropology in practice (reproductive Health), Medico-legal application: Personal
identification, Paternity exclusion and ascertainment, d. Erythroblustosis foetalis.
d) Nutritional Anthropology: concept, Disorders of Nutrition: malnutrition – under nutrition and
over nutrition.
e) Epidemiology

Readings :

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 1. Bass W.M. (1971). Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field manual of the Human
Skeleton. Columbia: Special Publications Missouri Archaeological Society.
2. Black S. and Ferguson E. (2011). Forensic Anthropology 2000 to 2010. CRC Press,
London.
3. Byers, S. N. (2008). Forensic Anthropology. Boston: Pearson Education LTD.
4. Gunn A. (2009) Essential Forensic Biology (2nd ed). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell
5. Jain, A. K., Flynn, P., & Ross, A. A. (2007). Handbook of biometrics. Springer Science &
Business Media.
6. Cummins, H., & Midlo, C. (1961). Finger prints, palms and soles: An introduction to
dermatoglyphics (Vol. 319). New York: Dover Publications.
7. Mann J and Truswell A. S. (2007). Essentials of Human Nutrition. Edited Vol. Oxford
University Press. UK.

UNIT II
i. Approaches to Development and Anthropology
a. Post-world war II History of Growth and Development
b. History of Development Anthropology and Anthropology of Development
ii. Applied and Action Anthropology
a. Malinowski as Applied Anthropologist
Definite Reference/DR:: Thomas Weaver. Malinowski as Applied Anthropologist. In
Thomas Weaver (ed.): The. Dynamics of Applied Anthropology in the Twentieth Century:
The Malinowski. Award Papers. 14–33.
b. Indigenous Knowledge and Applied Anthropology
. DR: Purcell, Trevor W. 1998. "Indigenous Knowledge and Applied Anthropology:
Questions of Definition and Direction." Human Organization 57 (3): 258 -72.
c. Historical outline of Applied Anthropology
Definite Reference/DR:. Rylko-Bauer, Barbara, Merril Singer and John van Willigen
(2006) ‘Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future’ American
Anthropologist, Vol. 108 (1), 178-190.
d. Challenges of Applied Anthropology in Recent Past
. DR: Paul Sillitoe, (2007): “Anthropologists only need apply: challenges of applied
anthropology”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13, 147-165.
e. A New Position: Between Theory and Applied Practice
. DR: Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice Opportunities and Challenges of
Working in the In-between R Sarah Pink, Tom O’Dell and Vaike Fors
f. Applied and Action Anthropology Together
. DR: Bennett, John, W. (1996) ‘Applied and Action Anthropology: Ideological and
Conceptual Aspects’ Current Anthropology, Vol. 37 (1), Supplement: Special Issue:
Anthropology in Public, S23-S53
g. Action Anthropology: An Introduction
DR: Foley, Douglas. "The Meskwaki and Anthropologists: Action Anthropology
Reconsidered." The Annals of Iowa 68 (2009), 331-333.

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 Les W. Field. Beyond ‘‘Applied’’ Anthropology. in A Companion to the Anthropology of
American Indians. Edited by. Thomas Biolsi. (Malden, Mass., Blackwell Publishing,
2004.: Chapter 24
h. In the words of Sol Tax
DR: Sol Tax 1988.Pride and puzzlement: Aretro-introspective record of. 60
years of anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 17'. 1—2.1.
i. A Case of Action Anthropology
. DR: Lane, Sandra D., Robert A. Rubinstein, Lutchmie Narine, Inga Back, Caitlin Cornell,
Alexander Hodgens, Monique Brantley, Rachel Kramas, Kathleen Keough, Brandon
O’Conner, William Suk, Eric Morrissette, and Mary Benson. 2011. Action Anthropology and
Pedagogy: University-Community Collaborations in Setting Policy, HUMAN
ORGANIZATION 70(3):289-299.
j. Social Impact Assessment within Anthropology and Beyond
Ref: Chapter III. Pg. 28-40. Dominek, Eleanor Mary, "New Directions within Applied
Anthropology" (1986). Master's Theses. 1293.
http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1293
Frank Vanclay, Ana Maria Esteves, Ilse Aucamp and Daniel M. Franks (2015), Social Impact
Assessment: Guidance for assessing and managing the social impacts of projects, Fargo ND:
International Association for Impact Assessment;
iii. Public Anthropology: Discourse and Cases
i) Public Anthropology: Concept, Practices and Debates
Ref: Shinji Yamashita . 2012.The Public Anthropology of Disaster: An Introductory Note.
Asian Anthropology (Volume 11)
Robert Borofsky. 2017. Public Anthropology in Nina Brown, Laura Tubelle de González,
and Thomas McIlwraith Eds. Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
American Anthropological Association
Beck, Sam, Carl Maida, 2015, Introduction in Beck, Sam, Carl Maida, eds, Public
Anthropology in a Borderless World, New York, Berghahn Books. Pp. 1-35
ii) Cases of Public Anthropology
Ref: Kohei Inose. 2014. Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology Special Issue Practicing
a Public Anthropology of the East Japan Disaster Public `Living Anthropology with
Uncertainty" and Radioactive Contamination
P. Mutsaers, (2015) 'A Public Anthropology of Policing Law enforcement and migrants in the
Netherlands', dissertation for the Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University.
UNIT III
Archaeology in Practice
Examples of different kinds of works being carried on by the following approaches:
Determinism, Processual archaeology: cultural materialism, culturology, functionalism,
cultural ecology, structuralism, historical materialism.

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 Contemporary approaches: critiques of Processual Archaeology; post processual archaeology:
poststructuralism, interpretive and symbolic approach and critical theory, Post modernity and its
impact in archaeology.
CRM, industrial, urban, ethnoarchaeology, action archaeology and public archaeology.
Cognitive and Symbolic Archaeology. Gender issues in archaeology. Nationalism, Colonialism, and
archaeology.

ANT-A-5-CC-11-P

UNIT I: Study of the major government policies and programmes for Rural People with
emphasis on the state of West Bengal like land reforms, Kanyashree, Sabooj Sathi, Midday Meal,
Nijo Griha, Nijo Bhumi, Jal Dharo Jal Bharo, Sasthya Sathi.
Ref: Government documents, Newspaper writings and academic paper, if available
Group discussion on the major policies and programmes to be transcribed and analysed in terms
of historical context, nature, significance, and impact on society and students’ assessments and
feelings regarding each project; Submission of the report [preferably as clearly handwritten] and
viva-voce
UNIT II: Study of Topographical Maps
1. Understanding the concept of topography
2. Method of preparation of topographical maps with particular emphasis on the Indian
Subcontinent
3. Detailed study of the science and symbols used in topographic maps
4. Comparative study of at least four topographic maps showing four topographical zones on the
basis of contour patterns like hills, mountains, plateaus, plains, forested areas, river valleys,
agricultural lands, settlement patterns, roads, railways, power lines.

References:
• Binford, Lewis R. 2001 In pursuit of the past: decoding the archaeological record. London :
Thames and Hudson.
• Clarke, D.L. 1968 Analytical archaeology. London: Methuen.
• Hodder, Ian. 1986 Reading the past: current approaches to interpretation in archaeology.
Cambridge: Cambrige University Press.
• Shanks, M. and C. Tilley. 1987 Social theory of archaeology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Schiffer, Michael, B. 1976 Behavioral archeology. New York: Academic Press.
• Trigger, Bruce. 1989 A history of archaeological thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
• Johnson, M. 2009. Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York: Wiley-Blackwell

ANT-A-5-CC-12 RESEARCH METHODS FOR PRACTICE [1] 5th Semester

ANT-A-5-CC-12-Th

UNIT I: Research Methodology:

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 a. The issue with approach, methodology, paradigm, method and technique
b. Based on nature of method and data: Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Research
c. Based on Paradigm: Positivist, Post-positivist, Interpretive, Scientific Realist, Critical,
Pragmatist and Action/ emancipatory research
d. Focus on two methods: (a) Survey (Coverage, response, measurement, sampling,
specification), (b) Ethnographic Approach
e. The particulars of ethnographic research: History of ethnography, participant observation and
other types of observation; informant / respondent / participant, key informant, research
collaboration, cultural specialist and cultural consultant; Notes [(e.g. Jottings, Field Notes,
Personal Notes, Methodology Notes, Theoretical Notes] and memos, recording and writing in
the field, documents and photography, transcription); Rhetoric/Styles of writing; Thick
descriptions; Thematic Analysis (e.g. Coding, Theme, Comparison, )
f. Participatory Research: Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA),
Participatory Learning and Action (PLA)

UNIT II: Field Archaeology: Site survey and excavation

Ideas of site survey and excavation. Different methods of exploration/site survey. Different
methods of excavation (pre-excavation stage, actual phase of digging up, recording of data,
collection of different types of data, preservation of data, post excavational analysis and
publishing of report; with examples.

UNIT III. The concept of time---dating techniques

i. The concept of chronology, Relevance of dating in archaeology. Absolute & relative
methods of dating; physical and chemical methods of dating. Following methods to be
briefly discussed (on the following points: Discovery, first use, datable materials, basic
principles, formula, precautions, advantages & disadvantages, percentage of error.
Specific examples to be cited).
ii. Absolute methods –C14, TL, K/Ar, Dendrochronology, obsidian hydration.
iii. Relative methods-Stratigraphy & river terraces, Typo-technology, FUN estimation

ANT-A-5-CC-12- P
Fieldwork is to be done on any community or group or settlement or problem
i. Selection of the issue/community/problem and site of study in advance;
ii. Every major stage of decision-making about the study needs to be well communicated to the
students so that they can explain them both analytically and critically in academic senses.
Detailed learning of methodologies [from Module] is preferred to help fieldwork.
iii. The fieldwork (camp-based for at least 10 days excluding journey and not more than 15 days)
needs to target analysis of (i) selection of the issue/s for study, (ii) questions and/ or purposes
and/ or hypothesis of the study (to be finally reflected in the report) (iii) the justification of
both probability and purposive sampling used or not used, (iii) ethical issues in the fieldwork
process, (iv) developing contacts and building trust and empathy (uncritical acceptance of
what and why the respondents talk and behave; getting as close as possible to the emotional
and rational interpretation of the respondents’ behaviour) (v) identifications of both the
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 culturally rich and divergent respondents with justifications (vi) building of design of the
study after few days of fieldwork to follow for the rest of the days of work
iv. Quantitative data and analysis might be based on samples of either or both of probability and
purposive sampling. They need to address both population and their issues
v. The major domains of the issues or phenomena need to cover (i) politics, (ii) education, (iii)
religion/ideology/worldview, (iv) health, (v) capabilities, marginalisation and empowerment
(vi) economic pursuits, (vii) government and non-government development programmes and
participation, (viii) social movements, if any and (ix) layout of symbolic spaces of their living.
vi. Reporting and presenting: [Primary calculations with tables and charts, Literature Study,
Categories of Common experiences, Categories of personal experiences, feelings and insights
about methods and techniques used, gaps in fieldwork, linking between domains of data, e.g.
economic with political and religious]
vii. Viva voce
Readings

Bernard, H. Russell (2002). Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative

Approaches, 3d ed. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press
Bernard, H. Russell. (1998). Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. Walnut Creek, CA:
AltaMira Press.
Creswell, John W. ed. Research Design (International Student Edition): Qualitative,
Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, Fourth edition. Inc, Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage
Publications, 2013a.
Creswell, John W. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches,
4th ed. Inc, Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2013b.
Dancy, W.S. 1985 Archaeological field methods: an introduction. New Delhi: Academic Press.
de González,Laura Tubelle and Thomas McIlwraith 2017 Perspectives: An Open Invitation to
Cultural Anthropology Edited by Nina Brown, American Anthropological Association
Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln. “Chapter 1: Introduction”. In Strategies of
Qualitative Inquiry, edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, 1-41. Thousand Oaks,
California: Sage Publications, 2013.
Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln. eds. The SAGE handbook of qualitative research, 3rd
ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.
Hole, F. and R.F.Heizer. 1973 Introduction to prehistoric archaeology. New York: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston.
Ian Shaw and Robert Jameson (editors) 2002 A Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing.
Renfrew C. and Paul Bahn. 1991 Theories and methods and practices. London: Thames and
Hudson.
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Vincenzo Matera 2016. Understanding Cultural Diversity. Culture, Cultural Traits and Cultural
Changes Between Global and Local Scales in Fabrizio Panebianco and Emanuele Serrelli Eds.
Understanding Cultural Traits: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Cultural Diversity. Pp 42-21.
Springer, Switzerland.
Wheeler, R.E.M. 1954 Archaeology from the earth. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

ANT-A-6-CC- 13RESEARCH METHODS FOR PRACTICE [2] 6th Semester

ANT-A-6-CC-13-Th
UNIT I: Fundamentals of Research in Anthropology

i. Components of research: Research Design, Research hypothesis, Research questions;

Objectives and/ or Purpose of Research; Sampling (random and non random);
measurement; scaling; questionnaire/schedule construction;

UNIT II: Bio-Statistics

ii. Types of variables, presentation and summarization of data (tabulation and illustration).
iii. Descriptive statistics- Frequency distribution, graphical presentation, Measurers of Central
Tendency, Measure of Dispersion, Skewness and Kurtosis, Normal distribution

Readings
1.Madrigal L. Statistics for Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012.
2. Zar JH. Biostatistical Analysis. Prentice Hall. 2010.
3. Chambers E. G. (1964). Statistical Calculation for Beginners. Cambridge University Press.
London.
4. Lancaster H. O. (1974). Statistics. New York : Jon Willy and Sons.
UNIT III: Ethics and Politics of Research: ethical review of research, theories and concepts
related to ethical decision-making; Ethical importance of consent, privacy and confidentiality in
research; Issues of academic fraud and plagiarism, conflicts of interest, authorship and publication;
Politics of quantitative, qualitative and mixed research

UNIT IV: Analysis and Writing Up

i. Chapterization, preparing a text for submission and publication, concepts of preface, notes
(end and footnotes), glossary, prologue and epilogue, appendix, bibliography (annotated) and
references cited, review and index.
ii. Similarities and differences between qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

ANT-A-6-CC-13-P

Project on the Social Movements of India: a] Tribal (e.g. Santal Movement, Birsa, Tana Bhakat
and anyone else); b]Land and Agricultural Reforms (Tebhaga); c] Environmental and anti-
displacement(e.g. Bishnoi Movement, Chipko Movement, Silent Valley, Narmada Bachao,
Pagladia and Tehri Dam); d] Response to Dispossession of agricultural land (Singur and
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Nandigram and anyone else); e] middle class (Anna Hazare); f] dalits (Dalit Buddhist movement):
Discussion in the class about any one from each of all the six categories. Group discussion on
each movement to be transcribed and analysed in terms of historical context, nature, scale, course
of actions, consequences, impact on society and students’ assessments and feelings regarding
each movement; Submission of the report [preferably as clearly handwritten] and viva-voce

ANT-A-6-CC-14 RESEARCH METHODS FOR PRACTICE [3] 6th Semester

ANT-A-6-CC-14-Th

UNIT I. Compulsory Reading of the following texts

i. Childe, V.G. 1956 Piecing together the past: the interpretation of archaeological data.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
ii. Binford, Lewis R. 1962 Archaeology as anthropology. American Antiquity. Vol 28 pp
217-225.
iii. Clarke, D.L. 1963 Archaeology: the loss of innocence. Antiquity vol. 47 pp 6-8.
iv. Hodder. I. 2010. Theoretical Archaeology: A Reactionary View in Symbolic and
Structural Archaeology by Ian Hodder (ed). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
UNIT II. Compulsory Reading of the following texts
i. Bronislaw Malinowski, 1922 “The Essentials of Kula”
ii. James Clifford. 1986. "Introduction: Partial Truths." In James Clifford and George Marcus eds.,
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California
Press, pp. 1-26
iii. Franz Boas .1920. The Methods of Ethnology
iv. Marvin Harris. 1966. The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle
v. Eric Wolf. 1966. Peasantry and Its Problems
vi. Renato Rosaldo. 1989. Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
vii. Lila Abu-Lughod, 1995. “A Tale of Two Pregnancies”.
Ref; R. Jon Mcgee And Richard L. Warms. 2016. Anthropological Theory: An Introductory
History [6th Edition] Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
UNIT III: Constitution, Public Policy and Programmes: Present Scenario of India
i. Dalit, SC, ST, OBC, minorities, women, transgender (Constitutional and legal safeguards
and reforms), Panchayeti Raj with special reference to West Bengal

ANT-A-6-CC-14-P

UNIT I: Data analysis and Field report of social and cultural anthropology of previous
semester
(a) Use of holism and theory connecting the issues or phenomena needs to be reflected in the report or
analysis of the data
(b) The report needs to cover the chapters on at least (i) introducing the study with its justification of the
backdrop; how, why and what they studied; questions and/ or purposes and/ or hypothesis of the study;
justification of the methodology in brief and arrangement of the report/chapters; (ii) literature review
and conceptual framework, (iii) approach and/ or methodology; (iv) chapters of the data analysis (v)

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 Reflexive and critical account of the senses and sensibilities emergent from the experiences and (vi)
conclusion
(c) The report presenting at least the sections (i, iv, v and vi) needs to guarantee/ ensure absence of
plagiarism with evidence of software checking.
(d) Seminar presentation and viva voce
UNIT II: Fieldwork on Geomorphology (5 days’ stay excluding journey)*
A) Data are to be collected on the following aspects:
i. Study of toposheets and topographic maps.
ii. Study of geomorphology of the chosen area with justifications
iii. Use of tools-----picks, knives, brushes, compass
iv. Study of natural sections and river terraces/riverine and fluvial actions as applicable
v. Preparation of a chosen area for gridding.
vi. Trial excavation by taking test pits (without affecting/destroying any site)
B) Submission of the basis of observation, works conducted and analysis.
C) Evaluation of report and viva voce

*The field work on Geomorphology may be conducted anytime during the period of previous
semester

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 II. DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE SUBJECTS
FOR 5TH SEMESTER AND 6TH SEMESTER [each semester one has to choose one from A
and one from B, thus two courses in each semester]

5th Semester

ANT-A-5-DSE A- 1: PUBLIC POLICY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

ANT-A-5-DSE A-1- Th
1. Introduction: a. Meaning of Public Policy; b. Characteristics of Public Policy; c. Types
of Public Policy; d. Relationship between Politics and Policy. [egyankosh.ac.in]
2. Why an anthropology of public policy. Definite Reference/DR:  Wedel et. al.
3. Public Policy as a Concept and a Field (or Fields) of Study. . DR: Smith and Larimer,
1st Ch.
4. Public Policy, Social Science, and the State: An Historical Perspective. . DR: Fischer Et
Al. Edited. Chapter 3
5. Theories of the Policy Cycle. . DR: Fischer Et Al. Edited. Chapter 4
6. Critiquing Conventional Wisdom through Anthropological Analyses. DR  Wedel et. al.
2005
7. Case Study: DR  Wedel et. al. 2005
8. Qualitative Policy Analysis: Interpretation, Meaning, and Content. DR Fischer Et Al.
Edited. Chapter 27
9. Critique of anthropology and Public Policy Engagements. . DR: Mosse; Okongwu and
Mencher.

ANT-A-5-DSE A-1-P
Readings, Group discussion and Presentation

(i) Politics of public policies in India. DR Blakeslee.

(ii) Emerging Issues and Policy Perspectives in India: Education; Health and Nutrition;
Employment and Skills; Social Protection. DR  ICSSR and World Bank
(iii)India's Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Policy Today: National policies; State level
policies: Cases of Gujarat and Karnataka. DR  Sonne
(iv) Legacy of Anthropological Research on Policy Issues. DR  Wedel et. Al. 2005
(v) What Public Policy Is and How Policy Questions Are Framed. DR  Wedel et. al. 2005
(vi) Public Policy and Governance in India. DR  Kumar and Narain

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Ref.
A. Kumar and V. Narain 2014. Public Policy and Governance in India. Guest.
Editorial. Vision. 18(4): 257-260.
Anne Francis, Okongwu and Joan P. Mencher. 2000 The Anthropology of Public
Policy: Shifting Terrains. Annual.Review of Anthropology 29:107-124.
David S. Blakeslee. 2012. Politics and Public Goods in Developing Countries: Evidence
from India October.
David Mosse, (2006): “Anti-social anthropology? Objectivity, objection, and
the ethnography ofpublic policy and professional communities”, Journal of the Royal
Anthropological. Institute(N.S.) 12, 935-956.
Frank Fischer, Gerald J. Miller, and Mara S. Sidney, eds. 2007,.Handbook Of Public
Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics, And Methods. New York: Taylor &. Francis,
Gerald D. Berreman Anthropology, Development and Public Policy' Occasional Paper. in
Sociology and Anlhropology, Volume. (1_) 3-32
http://web.mnstate.edu/robertsb/445/Why%20an%20anthropology%20of%20public%20p
olicy.pdf
Human Development In India: Emerging. Issuesand Policy Perspectives. Report of
A Consultation Held In February 5-6, 2010, New. Delhi, Supported By Indian
Council of Social Science Research & The World Bank
Janine R. Wedel and Gregory Feldman 2005. Editorial, Why an anthropology of public
policy. anthropology today vol 21 –1
Janine R. Wedel, Cris Shore, Gregory Feldman, Stacy Lathrop. 2005 . Toward an
Anthropology of Public Policy . Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, Vol. 600, The Use and Usefulness of the Social Sciences: Achievements,
Disappointments, and Promise pp. 30-51
Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer. 2009. The Public Policy. Theory
Primer. . University of Northern Iowa: Westview Press
Lina Sonne 2017 The Policy Environment for Food, Agriculture and Nutrition in India:
Taking Stock and Looking Forward No 15. Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South
Asia (LANSA) Working Paper Series
Michael, Moran, Martin Rein, and Robert E. Goodin, eds. 2006 The Oxford
Handbook of Public Policy. Oxford, UK: Oxford!University! Press
Peter Wagner, (2007). Public Policy, Social Science, and the State: An Historical
Perspective, in: Frank Fischer/Gerald J. Miller/Mara S. Sydney (eds.): Handbook of Public
Policy Analysis, Boca Raton et al., 29–40.

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 Praveen Jha, 2001 Current Government Policies Towards Health, Education and Poverty
Alleviation in India: An Evaluation

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ANT-A-5-DSE A- 2 Advanced Human Genetics

ANT-A-5-DSE A- 2- Th

Unit I

History of Genetics. Paradigms of Human Genetics: Mendelian Genetics

Human genome organisation: Nuclear genome and Mitochondrial genome - gene,
DNA and RNA structure and DNA replication, DNA repair and recombination, gene expression,
coding and non-coding region

Unit II

Expression of genetic information: from Transcription to Translation – the relationship between

genes and protein, transcriptions; transcription and RNA processing, encoding genetic
information, decoding the codons: the role of transfer RNAs.
Outline concept of epigenetics in human genetics

Unit III
Cytogenetics: Concept of Karyotype, banding (G banding) and high resolution FISH.
Chromosomal aberration: Aneuplody (Autosomal and sex chromosomal: Down’s syndrome,
Patau’s syndrome, Klienefelter’s syndrome, Turner’s Syndrome). Structural aberrations:
Translocation, deletion, inversion, duplication, ring chromosome, isochromosome. Concept of
point mutation: Family study: Pedigree analysis, concept of dominant, recessive and co dominant
inheritance. Penetrance and expressivity; Linkage and Mapping: Genetic Mapping. LOD score.
Sex linkage (Dominant and recessive) and sex influenced traits.

Unit IV

Electrophoresis, PCR technology and sequencing (Concept and outline)

Genomic Diversity and Human Evolution
Peopling of the Indian Subcontinent: Evidence from mtDNA and Y-chromosome; evolutionary
genetics; Molecular evolution; DNA sequence variation and human origins

ANT-A-5-DSE A- 2-P

The students are desired to prepare a project on any of the 4 units, submit a report after duly
forwarded by the supervisor (s).
Readings

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 1. Lewis R. (2009). Human Genetics: Concepts and Application. The McGraw−Hill
Companies, Inc.
2. Patch C. (2005). Applied Genetics in Healthcare. Taylor & Francis Group
3. Strachan T and Read AP. (2004). Human Molecular Genetics. Garland Science
4. Brown TA. (2007). Genomes. Garland Science.
5. Griffiths AJF. (2002). Modern Genetic Analysis: Integrating Genes and Genomes. WH
Freeman Press.
6. Griffiths AJF, Wessler SR, Carroll SB, Doebley J. (2011). An Introduction to Genetic
Analysis. Macmillan Higher Education.
7. Cavalli-sforza LL, Menozzi P, Piazza A (1994). History and Geography of Human Genes.
Princeton University.
8. Giblett, ER. (1969). Genetic Markers in Human Blood. Blackwell Scietific, Oxford.
9. Cummings MR (2011). Human Heredity: Principles and Issues. Brooks/Cole, Cengage
Learning
10. Jobling M, Hurls M and Tyler-Smith C. (2004). Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins,
Peoples & Disease. New York: Garland Science.
11. Stern C. (1973). Principals of Human Genetics. W. H. Freeman and Company, San
Francisco, USA.
12. Snustad .D.P. and Simmons M.J. (2006). Principles of Genetics, Fourth Edition, John
Wiley & Sons USA

ANT-A-5-DSE B- 1: Advanced Indian Prehistory

ANT-A-5-DSE B- 1- Th

i. Beginning and main stages of development, ii. Principle approaches, iii. Archaeological
remains, iv.Methods of studying stone tools, v. Geological context of prehistoric sites

vi. The following sites are to be briefly discussed:

a. Narmada Valley, b. Chirki, c. Nevasa, d. Hungsi Valley, e. Kangsabati, f. Subarnarekha, g.

Detailed study on the works being carried on in the Kortalayar Valley region, h. Bagor,i.
Langhnaj, j. Bhimbetka, k. Adamgarh, l. Burzahom, m. Chirand, n. Koldihwa, o. Sangankallu, p.
Tekkalkotta

vii. Prehistoric Rock Art

viii. An Overview of the Rock Art sites and motifs, particularly of Central India are to be treated
in a generalized manner.

ix. Current Trends in Indian Prehistory: a. Nature of cultural variability, b. Indianprehistory in the
global context.

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A project is to be prepared on any of the above topics and has to be presented through power
point in examination.

References
i. Chakravarty, K. K., and R. G. Bednarik. 1997. Indian Rock Art in Global Context. Delhi:
MotilasBanarasidass& IGRMS.
ii. Clark, J.D. and Sharma, G.R. (Eds.) Palaeoenvironment and Prehistory in the Middle Son
Valley, Madhya Pradesh, North Central India. Allahabad: AbinashPrakashan.
iii. Dhavalikar MK, 2013 editor. Prehistory of India. New Delhi: Manohar
iv. Misra VD, and Pal JN, 2002 editors. Mesolithic India. Allahabad: Department of Ancient
History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad.
v. Paddayya K. and Sushama G. Deo (Eds.) Recent Advances in Acheulian Culture Studies in
India. ISPQS Monograph No.6.

vi. Paddayya K. and Sushama G. Deo 2017. Prehistory of South Asia (The Lower Palaeolithic or
Formative Era of Hunting-Gathering), The Mythic Society, Bengaluru, pp. 152
vii. Pandey, S. K. 1993. Indian Rock Art. Delhi: Aryan Books International.
viii. Pappu, R. S. 2001. Acheulian culture in peninsular India: an ecological perspective. New
Delhi: D.K. Printworld.
ix. Pappu S, Y.Gunnell, M.Taieb and A.Kumar 2004. Preliminary report on excavations at the
Palaeolithic site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu (1999–2004), Man and Environment 29(2):1-17.
x. Pappu Shanti, Yanni Gunnell, Kumar Akhilesh, RégisBraucher, Maurice Taieb, François
Demory, Nicolas Thouveny. 2011. Early Pleistocene Presence of Acheulian Hominins in South
India. Science, Vol.331, pp. 1596-1599
xi. Pappu, S. and A.Kumar 2006. Preliminary Observations on the Acheulian Assemblages from
Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, in Axe Age. Acheulian Toolmaking from Quarry to Discard,
(N.Goren-Inbar and G. Sharon Eds.), pp. 155-180. London:Equinox Publishing Ltd.
xii. Pappu, S., 2007. Changing trends in the study of a Palaeolithic site in India: a century of
research at Attirampakkam, in The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia,
Inter-disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics
series (M.D.Petraglia and B.Allchin Eds.), pp. 121-135. Dordrecht, Springer.
xiii. Pappu, S., Y. Gunnell, A.Kumar, R. Braucher, M. Taieb, F. Demory and N. Thouveny 2011.
Early Pleistocene Presence of Acheulian Hominins in South India, Science, 25th March: 1596-
1599.

xiv. Sankalia, H.D. 1974. The Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan. Pune: Deccan
College Postgraduate and Research Institute.

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xv. Settar, S. and R. Korisettar (eds). 2002. Indian Archaeology in Retrospect Prehistory
Archaeology of South Asia Vol. I. Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research and Manohar

xvi. Singh, Upinder. 2015. A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to
the 12th century. Delhi: Pearson.

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ANT-A-5-DSE- B -2: Anthropological Demography

ANT-A-5-DSE- B -2- Th
Unit I
Definition of Demography, Historical Background, aims, scopes and objectives of Demography,
various terms in Demography: census, cohort, fertility, fecundity, life expectancy, life table,
mortality, migration, marriage distance, parity, population, rates and ratios, sources of
demographic data.

Unit II

Definition of Anthropological Demography, aims and objectives of Anthropological

Demography, importance of Anthropological Demography, Development of Anthropological
Demography. Similarity and differences Demography and Anthropological Demography.
Vital Statistics, techniques and measurements used in anthropological demography: Fertility,
Mortality, Sex Ratio, Age Specific Rates, life table, life expectancy, population projection.

Unit III
Culture, social systems and anthropological demography, Anthropological Demography and
Public Health, Concept of Demographic Transition, Indian demographic scenario.

ANT-A-5-DSE- B -2 - P
A small project work
In this, students should use empirical data from fieldworks / census / registered
(SRS/NSS/DHS/NFHS etc,) on any kind of group / community / society / studied institution or
from any accessible locality, and analyze or interpret on any anthropological demographic aspects
of their life / features which is a good example of interplay between biology and culture, and
prepare a small report on the same. The report duly forwarded by teacher should be submitted
during practical examination for evaluation.

Readings :

1. Barkley G. W. (1958). Techniques of Population Analysis. John Willey and Sons, NY, USA.
2. Howell N. (1986). Demographic Anthropology. Annual review of Anthropology. 15 : 2019-46.

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3. Kertzer D. I. and Fricke T. (1997). Anthropological Demography. University of Chicago Press,
London.
3. Bernardi L. (2007). An introduction to Anthropological Demography. Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research working paper WP 2007-031. Germany.
4. Barua S. (2002). Human Genetics : An Anthropological Perspective. Classique Books, Kolkata.
5. Cox Peter. (1950). Demography, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

6th Semester

ANT-A-6-DSE- A -3: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

ANT-A-6-DSE- A -3- Th

Unit – 1
a) Medical Anthropology: Definition and major areas of study; Goals and basic premises
b) Anthropology in Medicine and Anthropology of Medicine
c) Clinical Anthropology and Applied Medical Anthropology
d) Emergence of medical anthropology as a distinct sub-discipline and the current status of the
discipline.
Ref:
i) Leiban R W (1974): Medical Anthropology In Hand Book of Social and Cultural Anthropology
(Ed) Honnigman; Chicago, Rand McNally& Co (pages 1031 -1071)
ii) Brown J Peter, Ronanld L. Barret, Mark B Padilla ( 1998) Medical Anthropology: An
Understanding to the Fields; In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology (Ed) Brown J
Peter; California, Mayfield Publishing Company.

Unit – 2
a) Medical Anthropology: Major Approaches
Ref:
i) Janzen M. John (2002): The Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology,
Newyork, McGraw Hill
ii) Johnson T.M & Sargent FG (Ed)( 1990): Medical Anthropology: A Hand Book of Theory and
Method; New York, Green wood Press
iii) Ember and Ember (2004): Encyclopaedia of Medical anthropology: Health and Illness in
World Cultures. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York

b) Ethnomedicinal Anthropology: Disease aetiology, disease classification, diagnosis and healing

in folk societies; Culture bound syndromes, Traditional Medicine in India
Ref:
i) Johnson T.M & Sargent FG (Ed) (1990): Medical Anthropology: A Hand Book of Theory and
Method; New York, Green wood Press
ii) Foster M George & Anderson B G (1978): Medical Anthropology, New York, John Wiley &
Sons; PP51 -79
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iii) Leslie Charles C (1976): Asian Medical Systems, Berkeley, University of California Press
iii) Banarjee B G and Ritual J(1988): Folk Illness and Ethno medicine, New Delhi, Northern
Book Centre
iv) Joshi PC & Anil Mahajan (Ed) (1990): Medical Anthropology, New Delhi, Reliance
Publishing House.
v) Salil Basu (Ed) (1994): Tribal Health in India, Delhi, Manak Publications
Khan, Shamshad Khan, (2006) Systems of medicine and nationalist discourse in India: Towards
‘‘new horizons’’ in medical anthropology and history. Social Science & Medicine 62 (2006)
2786–2797

ANT-A-6-DSE- A -3-P
Students will have to read the following articles and will be shown the film. They will prepare a
report on Political Economy of Health with special emphasis on organ trafficking in India
Ref:
i) Nancy Scheper-Hughes, 2003. “Keeping an Eye on the Global Traffic in Human Organs,”
Lancet Vol. 361: 1645-1648.
ii) Lawrence Cohen, 1999 (reprint 2010), “Where it Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ
Transplantation,” in Byron Good, MJ Fischer, S Willen and MJ DelVecchio-Good, A Reader in
Medical Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell. Pp. 284-299.
iii) Film show: Michael Moore’s Sicko.
iv) Minkler M, Wallace SP, McDonald M., 1994. The political economy of health: a useful
theoretical tool for health education practice. Int Q Community Health Educ. 1994 Jan
1;15(2):111-26. doi: 10.2190/T1Y0-8ARU-RL96-LPDU.

OR

ANT-A-6-DSE A-4 Advanced Forensic Anthropology

ANT-A-6-DSE A-4- Th

Unit I
Introduction to Forensic Anthropology and its relationship with forensic science. Application of
forensic anthropology.

Unit II
Introduction to Dermatoglyphics: History and Development, scope and Applications.
Formation of fingerprint ridges, pattern types and patterns area. Palm Print :area, triradii, atd
angle.
Types of Fingerprints: Plastic, Visible and Latent Prints. Conventional and Modern methods for
development of latent fingerprints- Silver Nitrate, Powder Methods, and Laser Techniques.
Recent advances: Fingerprint and Palm print Recognition, Automated Fingerprint Identification
System.

Unit III
Concept of Hair features in Forensic Anthropology,
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Techniques for analyzing hair in forensic anthropology.

Unit IV
Basic Human Skeletal Biology, Identification of Human and Non-Human Skeletal Remains,
Ancestry, age, sex and stature estimation from bones, Discovery and Techniques for recovering
skeletonized Human Remains.
Personal Identification, Complete and Partial Identification, Methods of Identification in Living
Persons: Somatometry, Somatoscopy, Occupational Marks, Scars, Bite Marks, Tattoo Marks,
Fingerprints, Footprints, Lip Prints, Nails, Handwriting, Deformities and Others.

ANT-A-6-DSE A-4- P

1. Recording and Study of Finger and Palm Prints

2. Determination of pattern types, estimation of PII, palmar main line formula, main line index, 3.
Collection, cleaning and study of medulla of human scalp hair
4. Development of latent fingerprints using different chemical and powder methods.

Readings :

1. Cummins, H., & Midlo, C. (1961). Finger prints, palms and soles: An introduction to
dermatoglyphics (Vol. 319). New York: Dover Publications.
2. Das Chaudhuri A. B. and Chopra V. (1984). Variation in hair histological variable :
Medulla and Diameter. Human Heredity., 34 : 217-221.
3. Jain, A. K., Flynn, P., & Ross, A. A. (2007). Handbook of biometrics. Springer Science &
Business Media.
4. Lee, H. C., Ramotowski, R., &Gaensslen, R. E. (Eds.). (2001). Advances in fingerprint
technology. CRC press.
5. Berry, J., & Stoney, D. A. (2001). The history and development of fingerprinting.
Advances in fingerprint Technology, 2, 13-52.
6. Mehta, M. K. (1980). Identification of thumb impression and cross examination of
fingerprints. N. M. Tripathi Publication, Bombay.
7. Mukherjee D., Mukherjee D. and Bharati P. (2009). Laboratory Mannual for Biological
Anthropology. Asian Books Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, India.
8. Bass W.M. (1971). Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field manual of the Human
Skeleton. Columbia: Special Publications Missouri Archaeological Society.
9. Black S. and Ferguson E. (2011). Forensic Anthropology 2000 to 2010. CRC Press,
London.
10. Byers, S. N. (2008). Forensic Anthropology. Boston: Pearson Education LTD.
11. Gunn A. (2009) Essential Forensic Biology (2nd ed). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
12. Ghosh J R, Guin R and Bandyopadhyay A R. 2015. Estimation of stature from Foot
measurements. Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology. 1 (1): 25-30
13. Ghosh J R and Bandyopadhyay A R. 2014. Estimation of Stature from Index and Ring
Finger Lengths. Indian Journal of Physical Anthropology & Human Genetics. 33 (1): 23-
29.

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 14. Mistry S, Chatterjee M, Ghosh J R, Chakrabarti N. K., Bandyopadhyay A R. 2012.
Variations of Scalp, Pubic and Axial hair. Anthropologisher Anzieger 69(1) 117-125.
15. Rastogi S and Shukla B R K . (2003). Laboratory Manual of Physical anthropology.
Bharat Book House. Lucknow.

ANT-A-6-DSE- B -3: ORGANISATION AND ANTHROPOLOGY

ANT-A-6-DSE- B -3-Th
I. What is Organisation: The changing Images
DR: David Jaffee, Organization Theory: Tension and Change (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001,1st
Chapter
https://www.unf.edu/~djaffee/Org%20Theory/chap1.pdf
II. Introducing organization theory
DR Mary Jo Hatch (2006): Organization theory- modern, symbolic and postmodern perspectives,
Oxford University Press. 1st Chapter
[http://w3.ced.unicz.it/upload/denito/cap%201%20libro%20hatch.pdf]
III. Principles of Organisation
IV. Why and How Anthropology in Organisation
DR Ref. D. Douglas Caulkins and Ann T. Jordan Eds. 2013. A Companion to Organizational
Anthropology. UK: WILEY-BLACKWELL
V. Organisational Culture:
Concept and the Approaches
Cultural Dimensions
Cultural Diversity
The Culture and the Climate
Organisational Culture and Occupational Culture
Managing Human Resource
Ref. Benjamin Schneider, Mark G. Ehrhart, andWilliam H. Macey. 2013. Organizational
Climate and Culture. Annual Review of Psychology. Vol. 64:361-388
Susan. Wright, 2005., Anthropology Of Organization, Routledge, London and New York.
Tony Bush & Middlewood (2005) Leading and Managing People in Education. Saga Publication
Thousand Oaks. New Delhi, London. Chapter 2 and 4
E. A. Reichenbach. 2015. An Empirical Study of Cultural Dimensions and Their Applications

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VI. Cross-cultural Organisational behavior and Management
i. Approaches: Emic and Etic
ii. Principles
iii. Levels: Individual and Group
Ref: Michele J. Gelfand, Erez, Miriam, Aycan, Zeynep (2007), “Cross Cultural
Organizational Behavior”, Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 58, January, p. 479-514.
VII. Interpretivist Organizational Ethnography:
DR Sierk Ybema, Dvora Yanow,. Harry Wels, and Frans Kamsteeg, eds. 2009., Organizational
ethnography: Studying the complexities of everyday life,. London: Sage. Pp. 4-9
VIII. Globalization and Organisation
DR Carla I. Koen. 2005Comparative International Management. London · Boston: The
McGraw-Hill Chapter 12

ANT-A-6-DSE- B -3-P
I. Making the familiar strange and disengaging methods of study: Any everyday set of
activities identified by the students
II. Using methods and theory to study work practices in the classrooms or any other work
place
III. Identifying lies and forming miscontrual from the field or Ethical issues
IV. At-home ethnography and Struggling with closeness
V. Practice of using two methods [from standard textbooks with references] each for studying
organizational behaviour and organizational culture
Ref. Sierk Ybema, Dvora Yanow,. Harry Wels, and Frans Kamsteeg, eds.
2009., Organizational ethnography: Studying the complexities of everyday life,. London:

OR

DSE A-6- DSE B-4: Advanced Indian Protohistory

ANT-A-6-DSE B-4 - Th

Concept of civilization in the context of protohistory

i. Definition and various characteristic features (as per Childe and Braidwood).

ii. Harappan Cultural Tradition: general Framework and chronology:

a. Pre/Early Harappan cultures of the Indian subcontinent

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iii. Mature Harappan

a. Geographical Distribution and Settlement Pattern

b. Public and Private Architecture
c. Trade Hinterland and overseas, trade mechanism, transport facility, craft specialization
(pottery types to be studied in details)
d. Harappan script
e. Subsistence of the Harappans- plant and animal diet, agriculture and agriculture system,
water management, exploitation of natural resources,
f. Social, Political, Religious and Economic organization
iv. Decline and the Late Harappan
a. Various factors and theories about the Harappan Decline and consequences
b. Late Harappan phase (controversies regarding the terminologies: “Late Harappan” and
“post-urban phases”)
c. Harappan legacy
v. Indian Chalcolithic Perspectives
a. Significance of pottery as markers of Chalcolithic or village-farming communities in
different regions of India
b.Chalcolithic culture of Western India: Ahar and GaneshwarJodhpura
c. Chalcolithic culture of Ganga Plain: OCP and Copper Hoard
d. Chalcolithic cultures with special reference to the sites of Sohagaura,
e. Lahuradewa and Narhan
f. Chalcolithic culture of Central India: Kayatha and Malwa
g. Chalcolithic culture of Deccan: Savalda, Daimabad, Malwa,
h. Jorwe and Ramatirtha
vi. Iron Age and Megalithic cultures
a. Origins of Iron in India: Problems and perspective.
b. Painted Grey Ware Culture, Northern Black Polished Ware Culture (significant/type
sites should be mentioned)
c. Megalithic Cultures of India(Important and significant sites should be mentioned)

DSE A-6- DSE B-4-P

A project is to be prepared on any of the above topics and has to be presented through power
point in examination.

References
Bhargava, P. 2001. India in the Vedic Age: A History of Aryan Expansion in India. Delhi: D. K.
Print
i. Chakravarty, K. K., and R. G. Bednarik. 1997. Indian Rock Art in Global Context. Delhi:
MotilasBanarasidass& IGRMS.

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ii. Clark, J.D. and Sharma, G.R. (Eds.) Palaeoenvironment and Prehistory in the Middle Son
Valley, Madhya Pradesh, North Central India. Allahabad: AbinashPrakashan.
iii. Dhavalikar MK, 2013 editor. Prehistory of India. New Delhi: Manohar
iv. Misra VD, and Pal JN, 2002 editors. Mesolithic India. Allahabad: Department of Ancient
History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad.
v. Paddayya K. and Sushama G. Deo (Eds.) Recent Advances in Acheulian Culture Studies in
India. ISPQS Monograph No.6.

vi. Paddayya K. and Sushama G. Deo 2017. Prehistory of South Asia (The Lower Palaeolithic or
Formative Era of Hunting-Gathering), The Mythic Society, Bengaluru, pp. 152
vii. Pandey, S. K. 1993. Indian Rock Art. Delhi: Aryan Books International.
viii. Pappu, R. S. 2001. Acheulian culture in peninsular India: an ecological perspective. New
Delhi: D.K. Printworld.
ix. Pappu S, Y.Gunnell, M.Taieb and A.Kumar 2004. Preliminary report on excavations at the
Palaeolithic site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu (1999–2004), Man and Environment 29(2):1-17.
x. Pappu Shanti, Yanni Gunnell, Kumar Akhilesh, RégisBraucher, Maurice Taieb, François
Demory, Nicolas Thouveny. 2011. Early Pleistocene Presence of Acheulian Hominins in South
India. Science, Vol.331, pp. 1596-1599
xi. Pappu, S. and A.Kumar 2006. Preliminary Observations on the Acheulian Assemblages from
Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, in Axe Age. Acheulian Toolmaking from Quarry to Discard,
(N.Goren-Inbar and G. Sharon Eds.), pp. 155-180. London:Equinox Publishing Ltd.
xii. Pappu, S., 2007. Changing trends in the study of a Palaeolithic site in India: a century of
research at Attirampakkam, in The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia,
Inter-disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics
series (M.D.Petraglia and B.Allchin Eds.), pp. 121-135. Dordrecht, Springer.
xiii. Pappu, S., Y. Gunnell, A.Kumar, R. Braucher, M. Taieb, F. Demory and N. Thouveny 2011.
Early Pleistocene Presence of Acheulian Hominins in South India, Science, 25th March: 1596-
1599.

xiv. Sankalia, H.D. 1974. The Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan. Pune: Deccan
College Postgraduate and Research Institute.

xv. Settar, S. and R. Korisettar (eds). 2002. Indian Archaeology in Retrospect Prehistory
Archaeology of South Asia Vol. I. Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research and Manohar

xvi. Singh, Upinder. 2015. A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to
the 12th century. Delhi: Pearson.
xvii. Thapar, Romila. 1999. From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First Millenium
BC in the Ganga Valley. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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 II. Ability Enhancement Elective (Skill Based) or SEC

ANT-A-3-SEC -A-1: Public health and epidemiology Credit 2

Unit I: Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health: Overview of epidemiology methods used in

research studies to address disease patterns in community and clinic-based populations,
distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specific populations, and
strategies to control health problems.

Unit II: Statistical Methods for Health Science

Analysis and interpretation of data including data cleaning, data file construction and
management; implementation of analytic strategies appropriate for the type of data, study design
and research hypothesis.

Unit III: Environmental Health: Effects of biological, chemical, and physical agents in
environment on health (water, air, food and land resources); ecological model of population
health; policies, and practices associated with environmental health and intended to improve
public health

Unit IV: Psychological, Behavioural, and Social Issues in Public Health; Cultural, social,
behavioural, psychological and economic factors that influence health and illness.

Readings
1. Gordis L. (2004). Epidemiology. Third edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.
2. Remington PL, Brownson RC, and Wegner MV. (2010). Chronic Disease Epidemiology and
Control. American Public Health Association.
3. Pagano M and Gauvreau K. (2000). Principles of Biostatistics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
4. Turnock B. (2011). Public health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
5. Edberg M. (2013). Essentials of Health Behavior. Social and Behavioral Theory in Public
Health. Second Edition, Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
6. Griffith JR and White KR. (2010). The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization. Health
Administration Press: Chicago, IL.
7. Kovner AR, McAlearney AS, Neuhauser D. (2013). Health Services Management: Cases,
Readings, and Commentary. 10th Ed. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.
8. Lee LM. (2010). Principles and Practice of Public Health Surveillance. Oxford University Press
9. Merson M, Black RE, Mills A. (2006). International Public Health: Diseases, Programs,
Systems and Policies. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

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ANT-A-3-SEC –A-2: ANTHROPOLOGY AND TOURISM

I. Introducing the Core: Anthropology, Tourism and Tourists

1 Anthropology : DR Burns: Part I
2 Tourism : DR Burns: Part I
3 Tourists : DR Burns: Part I
4 Culture : DR Burns: Part I
Ref: Peter M. Burns 1999.An introduction to tourism and anthropology. By. London and
New York: Routledge
Licinio Cunha, (2012). "The Definition and Scope of Tourism: A Necessary Inquiry ",
Cogitut - Journal of Tourism Studies, pp 91 – 114
II. The Paradigms and Approaches to Tourism Research
DR: Shoichi Ohashi （2012）「Classification of Paradigms and Approaches in the
Present Tourism Research ― A Methodological and Theoretical Viewpoint
―」『Academic World of Tourism Studies : Faculty of Tourism /Graduate School of
Tourism/ Wakayama University』Vol.1, pp.9― 16.
III. Brief Introduction to Related Concepts and Methods
1. Anti-tourism
2. Authenticity
3. Backpacker
4. Community-based tourism
5. Continuum model
6. Critical tourism studies
7. Culinary tourism
8. Cultural tourism
9. Culture broker
10. Dark tourism
11. Distance decay
12. Drifter
13. Ecotourism
14. Ethnic tourism
15. Gaze
16. Host and guest
17. Imaginary
18. Irritation index
19. Policy and policymaking
20. Safari
21. Sex tourism
22. Slow tourism
23. Smart tourism
24. Tourism Satellite Account
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 25. World Tourism Organization
26. Xenophobia
DR: Jafar Jafari and Honggen Xiao, eds. 2016. impact In Encyclopedia of Tourism.
Cham: Springer International Publishing.
IV. Development and Tourism in Developing Countries
DR: Harrison, D. (2015) Development theory and tourism in developing countries: what
has theory ever done for us? International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 11(1), 53–82.
V. Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management
1. What is Impact. DR Jafari and Xiao
2. What is Planning: DR Jafari and Xiao
3. What is Management. DR Jafari and Xiao
4. An introduction to tourism impacts. [with case study] . DR  Mason. Chap. 3
5. The Socio-cultural impacts of tourism. [with case study] . DR Mason. Chap. 5
6. Tourism planning and management: concepts and issues. [with case study] . DR
Mason. Chap 7.
Ref: Mason, Peter. 2003.Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management, Amsterdam:
Butterworth-
. DR Jafar Jafari and Honggen Xiao, eds. 2016. impact In Encyclopedia of Tourism.
Cham: Springer International Publishing.
VI. Globalization, Hospitality and Contest
1. Theming and Tourism . DR Lew et al. Chapter 16
2. Whose Tourist-Historic City. DR Lew et al. Chapter 17
3. Indigenous People and Tourism. DR Lew et al. Chapter 20
Ref: Lew, A.A., Hall, C.M. and Williams, A.M. eds. 2014. The Wiley-Blackwell
Companion to Tourism, Oxford: Blackwell

Peter M. Burns 1999.An introduction to tourism and anthropology. By. London and New
York: Routledge:

ANT-A-4-SEC -B-1: ANTHROPOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT 2

A. What is Development?

I. An Historical outline of Major Understandings

1. The Contentions over the Concept

2. The Geography of Development,
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 3. Measuring Growth and Development,
4. Debates over Development,
5. The Internationally significant Events till Globalisation since World War

Suggested reading
Sumner, Andrew, Tribe, Michael A.: 2008. International development
studies: theories and methods in research and practice. Los Angeles, Calif: SAGE, 1st
Chapter
Early Post‐War Theories of Development
[http://www.zjaksdesign.nl/development_theories.pdf]
Rapley, John. 2007. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third
World. Third Edition. Boulder: Lynne Rienner: Introduction and Chapter one
Lecture 1: Concepts of Development and Underdevelopment.
[http://www.uuooidata.org/course/sns/s088/Lecture%201_Concepts%20of%20Developme
nt%20and%20Underdevelopment.pdf]
Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, eds., 2005.The Anthropology of Development
and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism.
Oxford: Blackwell. Introduction
B. Approaches to Development: Brief Introduction

1. Classical and Neoclassical Economics

a. Adam Smith: Beginnings
b. Utilitarianism
2. From Keynesian Economics to Neoliberalism
a. Keynesian Economics
b. The Developmental State
c. Structuralism and Import Substitution
d. Development Economics
e. Neoliberalism
f. World Bank Policy
g. Benevolent Consensus
h. Millennium Development Goals
i. Debt Relief
3. Development as Modernization
a. Critique of the Modernization Approach
b. Return of Modernization
4. Nonconventional, Critical Theories of Development
a. Structural Marxism
b. Imperialism
c. Dependency Theory
d. World Systems Theory
e. Regulation Theory
5. Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postdevelopmentalism
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 a. Postcolonialism
b. Encountering Development
c. Postdevelopmentalism
d. Countercritique
6. Feminist and Development
a. Major Approaches: Welfare, WID, WAD, GAD, WED
7. Critical Modernism and Democratic Development
a. Alternatives
b. Critical Modernism
c. Democratic Development
d. Social Movements
e. Radical Democracy
Suggested reading
Richard Peet and Hartwick, Elaine. 2009. Theories of Development: Contentions,
Arguments, Alternatives. (2nd Edition). New York: The Guilford Press.

E. Wayne Nafziger, 2006. Economic Development, 4th edition, Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 5th Chapter

C. Anthropology and Development: The Pros and Cons of the Relationship

1. Anthropology in DevelopmentCardoso
2. The World of Development and AnthropologyBouju
3. The Uneasy Relationship Lewis, Gow.
4. Development Anthropology: The Aspects, Phases, Actions, DebatesGrammig. 2nd
Chap.; Gow; Edelman and Haugerud: Introduction
5. Speaking on behalf of ‘those’ OthersCardoso
6. Anthropology of Development and Development Anthropology Edelman and
Haugerud: Introduction, Escobar
Suggested reading

Jacky Bouju. 2011. Application of Development Anthropology: Applied Anthropologists

and Practitioners. Cahiers d’études africaines. 202-203. 563 - 589
David, Gow. 2002 Anthropology and Development: Evil Twin or Moral Narrative?
Human Organization 61(4): 299–313.
Joana G. Cardoso,2007. .Applied and academic anthropology in development: Distance
or engagement? Antropologia, Escala e Memoria, 2(N.S.): 102–117.
Lewis, D. (2005): Anthropology and development. the uneasy relationship [online].
London: LSE. Research Online. <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/253/1/

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 Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, eds., 2005.The Anthropology of Development
and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism.
Oxford: Blackwell
Thomas Grammig. 2002. Technical knowledge and development: observing aid projects
and processes . London : Routledge,

ANT-A-4-SEC -B-2: MEDIA AND ANTHROPOLOGY 2

I. Communication: Theory, Paradigm and Model

1. Chicago School & Basic Principles
2. Social Responsibility
3. McQuail’s Four Kinds of Theories
4. Propaganda Theories
5. Diffusion of Innovation Theory
6. The Mediation of Social Relations
7. Political Economy
8. Agenda Setting
9. Framing & Spiral of Silence
10. Reception
11. Globalization and Media
II. Media Approaches and Themes
1. Behaviourism and media effects
a. Lasswell, Cantril, Cultivation theory, Uses and gratifications theory
2. Modernity and medium
a. Innis, Benjamin, Williams, Habermas:
3. Structuralism and semiotics
a. Encoding/Decoding, ideology and hegemony
b. The ideology of news
4. Interactionism and structuration
a. Self-presentation
b. No Sense of Place
5. Structuration
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 a. Feminisms and gender
b. Radical feminism
c. The male gaze
d. Masculinity in crisis
6. Postmodernity and the information society
a. hyperreality and simulation
7. Consumerism and everyday life
a. Consumer resistance
b. De Certeau: everyday tactics
Ref.
Dan Laughey. (2007). Key Themes in Media Theory. Berkshire: Open University Press.
Marcel Danesi ed. 2013.Encyclopedia of Media and Communication,. Toronto, Canada:
University of Toronto Press.

Sondra M. Rubenstein. 2013. Overview of Media Theories. Media, Politics & Public
Opinion [http://overseas.haifa.ac.il/images/TheoryPacket_Fall_2013.pdf]

Stephen W. Littlejohn, & Foss, Karen A. (2009). Encyclopedia of Communication

Theory. California: SAGE Publications, Inc. Chronology. lv to lxviii

III. Media Anthropology

1. Media, Mass and Anthropology
2. The Paradox: Definitions, Actors, Fields, Methods, Strategies and taboo, Case of
Illustration
3. Media Effects Tradition
4. Themes and problems
5. Controversies
6. The Possible Contribution of Anthropology
7. Examples of use of anthropology in communication
Ref.

S. Hjarvard (2008) The mediatization of society. A theory of the media as agents of social
and cultural change. Nordicom Review, 29 (2), p.105-134.
Osorio, Francisco. 2001. Mass media anthropology. Social Sciences Faculty and
Philosophy and Humanities Faculty: University of Chile

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Mihai Coman 2003. Media Anthropology: An Overview. University of Bucharest,
Romania
Rothenbuhler E (2008) Media Anthropology as a Field of Interdisciplinary Contact.
Available at: www.media-anthropology.net/workingpapers.htm.

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Anthropology General
University of Calcutta

2018
 ANTHROPOLOGY GENERAL (2018) : ANT-G

University of Calcutta

Part Semest Paper

er
I CC, AECC, SEC, DSE Grade
Point
ANT-G-1- A. Introduction to Biological Anthropology 4
CC/GE -1 - B. Introduction to Archaeological Anthropology
1 TH C. Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

ANT-G-1- Biological Anthropology 2

CC/GE- 1-P A. Study of human skeleton
B. Craniometry

ANT-G-2- A. Human Genetics and Population Variation 4

CC/GE -2 - B. Ecology and Culture in the Past
2 TH C. Social Cultural Anthropology - I
ANT-G-2- A. Somatology 2
CC/GE --2- P B. Genetic tests
II
ANT-G-3- A. Primate Evolution 4
CC/GE -3- B. Archaeological Anthropology - I
TH C. Social Cultural Anthropology - II
3 ANT-G-3- Archaeological Anthropology 2
CC/GE -3-P Drawing of tools, morphometric analysis, topo sheet
analysis
ANT-G-3- Public Health and Epidemiology or 2
SEC-A- (1) Anthropology and Development

ANT-G-4- A. Biological Anthropology 4

CC/GE -4- B. Archaeological Anthropology - II
TH C. Social Cultural Anthropology - III
4 ANT-G-4- Social-cultural Anthropology 2
CC/GE -- 4-P Field training in Anthropology
ANT-G-SEC- Anthropology and Tourism or 2
B-(1) Media and Anthropology
III One each in Semester 5 and 6 to be chosen from the following
ANT-G-5- Human Growth and Development 4
DSE-1A-TH
ANT-G-5- Project Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE- 2
DSE-1A-P 1A-TH
ANT-G-5-- Contributions to Archaeological Anthropology in 4
DSE-2A-TH India
ANT-G-5- Project Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE- 2
DSE-2A-P 2A-TH
5
ANT-G-5- Environment and Anthropology 4
DSE-3A-TH

2
 ANT-G-5- Project Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE- 2
DSE-3A-P 3A-TH

ANT-G-5- Physiological Anthropology or 2

SEC-A-(2)- Medical Anthropology
TH

ANT-G-6- Food and Anthropology 4

DSE-1B-TH
ANT-G-6- Project Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE-1 2
DSE-1B-P B-TH
ANT-G-DSE- Advanced Human Genetics 4
2B-TH
ANT-G-6- Project Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE-2 2
6 DSE-2B-P B-TH
ANT-G-6- Heritage Management 4
DSE-3B-TH
ANT-G-6- Project Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE- 2
DSE-3B-P 3B-TH
ANT-G-6- Earliest Evidences of Urbanisation in India or 2
SEC-B-(2) Anthropological Demography

II. Elective Course

A. Discipline Specific
One each in Semester 5 and 6 to be chosen from the following
For Semester 5
ANT-G-5-DSE-1A: Human Growth and Development
ANT-G-5-DSE-2A: Contributions to Archaeological Anthropology in India
ANT-G-5-DSE-3A: Environment and Anthropology

For Semester 6
ANT-G-6-DSE-1B: Food and Anthropology
ANT-G-6-DSE-2B: Advanced Human Genetics
ANT-G-6-DSE-3B: Heritage Management

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III. Ability Enhancement Course

Ability Enhancement Elective (Skill Based)

One each in Semester3, 4, 5 and 6. To be chosen
from the following.

Semester 3 or 5
For semester 3 or 5 candidate has to choose either from SEC A-1 or SEC-A-2

ANT-G-3/5-SEC-A (1):-1 Public Health and Epidemiology

OR
ANT-G-3/5-SEC-A (1)-2 Anthropology and Development

ANT-G-3/5-SEC-A (2):-5: Physiological Anthropology

OR
ANT-G-3/5-SEC-A (2):-6: Medical Anthropology

Semester 4 or 6
For semester 3 or 5 candidate has to choose either from SEC B-1 or SEC-B-2

ANT-G-4/6-SEC-B (1):-3: Anthropology and Tourism

OR
ANT-G-4/6-SEC-B (1):-3-4:Media and Anthropology

ANT-G-4/6-SEC-B (2):-7: Earliest Evidences of Urbanisation in India

OR
ANT-G-4/6-SEC-B (2)- 8: Anthropological Demography

Note
1. AEEC courses are included in the gradation
2. At least 50 lectures should be allotted for 4 credit theoretical course and 2 credit practical course.

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 Semester I:

ANT-G-1-CC/GE -1 -TH
Credit 4

A. INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

UNIT I:
Emergence, history, divergence (sub-disciplines/sub-fields), flexibility, holism of
Anthropology.Anthropology in relation to the disciplines of Physical and / or Natural sciences,
Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.
UNIT II:
I. Definition of Anthropology, aim, scope, branches and applied areas of Biological
Anthropology.
II. Morphology of man (External and Skeletal Morphology)
a. External morphology – Features of man.
b. Skeletal morphology – Definition and function of human skeleton. Types and definition of the
types of bones. Name, number, and position of bones of human skeleton.
c. Modifications of human skeleton as consequences of evolution- erect posture& bipedal gait.
d. Human Dentition (Types and salient Features)
e. Dental Formula (Deciduous and Permanent)
III. Cell : Unit of Life
i) Structure and function of animal (eukaryotic) cells.
ii) The cell cycle: cell division – meiosis and its significance.

References:
1. Jurmain, R., Kilgore L.Trethan W., Ciochonr, L. (2012). Introduction to Physical
Anthropology. Wadsworth Publ., USA
2. Krober, A.L. (1948). Anthropology. Oxford& IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.
3. Rastogi, S.andShukla, B.R.K. (2003). Laboratory Manual of Physical Anthropology.
Bharat Book Center, Lucknow, India.
4. Mukherjee, D., Mukherji D. P. and BharatiP.9(2009). Laboratory Manual of Biological
anthropology. Asian Books Pvt. Ltd. , New Delhi, India.
5. Mitra, S. (2001). Anatomy, AcademicPress, Kolkata, India.
6. Sarkar,R.M. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata.
7. Mukherjee, D. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan. J.N. Pub. House.
8. Mukherjee, D. (2018). Joibik Nribijnan. Scholar Pub. House, Kolkata.

B. INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

UNIT - I
1. Introduction to archeological anthropology, its relation to anthropology, palaeoanthropology,
history, prehistory an historical archeology.
2. A brief history of archeology, mentioning only the stages ofAntiquarianism, Three Age
Paradigm, Culture history, Processual and Post-processual archeology.

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3. A brief idea of palaeo-environment in high and low latitudes andaltitudes.
4. Methods for reconstructing the past- environmental archeology, experimental archeology,
Ethno-archeology, Primate ethology.
5. Field techniques- exploration, excavation, data analysis and publication of report.
6. Dating methods- concept and importance of chronology in archeology, absolute and relative
methods. Only the following methods are to be briefly outlined: C14, TL, FUN,
Archeo-magnetism, K/Ar, stratigraphy and river terraces.
7. Identification and description of stone and bone tools
8. Different tool making technologies.

C. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

1. The holistic nature of Anthropology and integration of the anthropological subdisciplines;

The Scope and Objective of Social and Cultural Anthropology

2. The Theories: Evolutionism, Historical Particularism; Diffusionism (including

Concepts, like universals, diffusion, acculturation), Structural-functionalism, Cultural
Materialism, Culture and Personality, Structuralism, Symbolic Anthropology, Cultural
Ecology and Political Economy.
CONCEPT OF CULTURE:
Defining culture, features of culture, socialization, culture shock, ethnocentrism, theories of
culture (e.g. evolution, diffusion,patterns of culture, cultural configurations, Structure
functionalism, cognitive anthropology, cultural ecology), subculture, cultural relativism,
functions of culture, .
CONCEPT OF SOCIETY
1. Society, group, community, structure, organization, system,institution, process/interaction,
Social function, Status, Role, Diaspora, Social networkand Social Capital
2. Concept of Tribe: Indian tribes, distribution – geographical
Social organization: Garo, Santal, Chenchu, Toda
SOCIAL STRATIFCATION
Egalitarian societies, rank society (band, tribe, peasant), division of labour, class society, caste
society in India, dynamics of caste, racism and inequality,
POLITICAL SYSTEM AND SOCIAL CONTROL
Political organization, types, band, tribe, kinship organization, age-grade organization, chiefdom,
leadership, social control and conflict resolution, state, law and codified law, functions of law,
violence and terror, religion and politics

References:
1. Nanda, S. (1984). Cultural Anthropology. Wadsworth Publ. Company, California.
2. Hobel, E.A. (1974). The Law of Primitive Man. New York.
3. Fried, M. (1967). The Evolution of Political Society. Random House, New York.
4. Bandopadhyay, S. ((2010). Samajik Sanskritik Nribijanan 9in Bengali), Parul, Kolkata.
5. Jha, M. (1994). An Introduction to Social Anthropology. Vikas Pub. House Pvt. Ltd. New
Delhi.

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 6. Dube, S.C. (1952). Social Anthropology, Hyderabad.
7. Majumder, D.N. and Madan T.N. (1956). An Introduction to Social anthropology, Asia
Publ. House, Bombay.
8. Sarkar, R.M. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata

ANT-G-1-CC/GE -1 –P Credit 2

UNIT-I. Biological Anthropology

A. Study of human skeleton (Original or caste material)
i) Identification of bones- skull bones: Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, Temporal, Maxilla, Sphenoid,
Zygoma, and Mandible.
ii) Vertebra (Atlas. Axis, typical cervical, typical thoracic, lumber, sacrum). Long bones with
side determination (Humerus, Radius, Ulna, Femur, Tibia, Fibula), Scapula, Clavicle, Os
Innominatum
iii). Determination of age and sex from skull and pelvis.

B. Craniometry: (on three skulls): Students should know the landmarks, instruments related to
it.
1. Maximum cranial length, 2. Maximum crania breadth, 3.Least Frontal breadth, 4.Maximum
Bi-zygomatic breadth, 5. Nasal length, 6. Nasal breadth, 7. Superior Facial Length

References:
1. Rastogi, S.andShukla, B.R.K. (2003). Laboratory Manual of Physical Anthropology.
Bharat Book Center, Lucknow, India.
2. Mukherjee, D., Mukherji D. P. and Bharati, P. (2009). Laboratory Manual of Biological
anthropology. Asian Books Pvt. Ltd. , New Delhi, India.
3. Mitra, S. (2001). Anatomy, Academic Press, Kolkata, India.
4. Sarkar, R.M. (2003). Babyaharik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata.
5. Sen, T. (1994). Guide to Anthropometry. World Press, Kolkata.
6. Mukherjee, D. (2018). Joibik Nribijnan. Scholar Pub. House, Kolkata.

Semester 2

ANT-G-2-CC/GE -2 –TH Credit 4

A. HUMAN GENETICS AND POPULATION VARIATION

a. Definition and application of knowledge of genetics.

b Gametogenesis: Spermatogenesis and Oogenesis, stages and differences.
c. Normal chromosomal constitution of man. Brief outline of Karyotype and Denver system of
human chromosome classification

d. Basic structure of DNA and RNA With comparison

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e. Brief concept of Aneuploidy and Poluploidy; Numerical chromosomal aberration in man;
Causes and manifestation (Down‘sSyndrome, Turner‘s Syndrome and Klinefelter‘s Syndrome).

f. Mendelian principles : its explanation and application in man.

g. Mendelian Inheritance in Man- autosomal dominant (PTC) autosomal recessive(albinism) sex
chromosomal- dominant (Vitamin-D resistance rickets), recessive (colour blindness).
h. Multiple allele and Polymorphic character in man (ABO Blood group system.)

UNIT-II. Peoples / Population of World

a. Concept of Race (Ethnic Group).
b. UNESCO statement of race (1950,1952)
c. Geographical distribution and features of major races/population of mankind
(Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid).
d. Racial concept - Garn - geographical, local and micro races.
e. Criteria for population/racial classification: (Skin colour, Scalp hair and ABO
blood groups).
f. Racial / ethnic composition of the population of undivided India by H.H. Risley, B.S. Guha
and S. S. Sarkar.
g. Human adaptation: Hot, cold, altitude, infectious disease and stress.

References:

1. Krober, A.L. (1948). Anthropology. Oxford&IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.

2. Sarkar, R.M. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata.
3. Mukherjee, D. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan. J.N. Pub. House.
4. Jurmain, R., Kilgore, L. Trethan, W., Ciochon, R.L. (2012). Introduction to Physical
anthropology. Wadsworth Publ., USA
5. Krober, A.L. (1948). Anthropology. Oxford &IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.
6. Kottak, C.P. (2000). Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity. McGraw Hill
Co.Inc.
7. Lewis, R. (1997). Human Genetics: Concepts and Application.2ndEdn. McGraw Hill.
USA.

B. Ecology and Culture in the Past

UNIT – I Development of prehistoric cultures from the earliest evidences up to

the beginning of historical times; on a regional basis – Africa and Europe.
I. Earliest Pleistocene cultures of Africa, and their subsequent development with
special emphasis to east Africa Lake Turkana basin (sites – Olduvai Gorge, Omo, Hadar, Laetoli,
Koobi-Fora, Olorgesaile). Only relevant brief sketches are to be given.
II. Earliest Pleistocene cultures of Europe and their subsequent development with
special emphasis on western Europe are to be dealt with. The justifications of lower, middle and
Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic classifications and nomenclatures are to be ratified.
Cultures are to be studied in the following format: 3 type sites/ important sites of each cultural
stage, the characterizing evidences, dates, general cultural life with growing varieties of

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evidences of the prehistoric people up to Neolithic times and linking them with the preceding
and succeeding cultural phases as well as the mention of associated fossil finds, if any.

References:
1. Clark, D. (1977). Prehistoric Europe; The Economic Basis.
2. Karl W. Butzer. (1971). Environment and Archeology: An Ecological Approach to
Prehistory. Walter de Gruyter, Inc.; 2nd ed..

C. SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY I

1.MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

Concept of Marriage, definition. Is marriage universal? Incest taboos, types and variations of
marriage systems, regulations of marriage, preferential marriage, marital transactions, dowry
and bride price, emerging issues of marriage including same-sex marriages.
The family, Nuclear family, extended family

2.MARITAL RESIDENCE, KINSHIP AND ASSOCIATION

Patterns of marital residence, kinship, structure of kinship, bilateral kinship, unilateral
kinship, Ambilineal systems, classification of kin, kinship terminology, Non kin associations
(group based on age, association based on sex)

3.SOME IMPORTANT AREAS OF ANTHROPOLOGY (brief notes on the tenets):

Medical Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Development and Anthropology, Applied
Anthropology, Cognitive Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Economic Anthropology
(Subsistence Strategies: Hunting and Gathering, Horticulture, Pastoralism, Shifting Cultivation,
production, distribution and redistribution, Agriculture and Peasants, Informal Economy,
Poverty, Sustainable, Livelihood and Sustainable Development; exchange, and consumption of
goods and services in complex societies.)

References:

1. Nanda, S. (1984). Cultural Anthropology. Wadsworth Publ. Company, California.

2. Hobel, E.A. (1974). The Law of Primitive Man. New York.
3. Fried, M. (1967). The Evolution of Political Society. Random House, New York.
4. Bandopadhyay, S. ((2010). Samajik Sanskritik Nribijanan (in Bengali), Parul, Kolkata.
5. Dube, S.C. (1952). Social Anthropology, Hyderabad.
6. Majumder, D.N. and Madan T.N. (1956). An Introduction to Social anthropology, Asia
Publ. House, Bombay.
7. Mayer, L. (1995). An Introduction to Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press.
New Delhi.
8. Srivastava, A.R.N. (1997). What is Anthropology? K.K. Pub., Allahabad, India.

ANT-G-2-CC/GE -2 –TH P Credit 2

Biological Anthropology

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1. Somatology: Scalp Hair, Nose, Eye (on three subjects)
a) Measurement on head and face (Cephalometry)
1. Maximum head length, 2. Maximum head breadth, 3. Least frontal breadth, 4. Bi-zygomatic
breadth, 5. Bi-gonial breadth, 6. Nasal length, 7. Nasal breadth, 8. Nasal depth, 9. Morphological
superior facial length, 10. Morphological total facial length.

2. Measurements on trunk and limbs

1. Height vertex, 2. Height tragus, 3.Height acromion, 4.Height radiale, 5.Height stylion,
6.Height dactylion, 7.Sitting height Vertex, 8.Bi-acromial diameter, 9. Hand length, 10. Hand
breadth, 11. Foot length, 12.Foot breadth, 13. Body weight

3. Genetic tests (On three subjects): Following standard technique

(i). ABO and Rh (D) blood group systems
(ii) Test for colour blindness
(iii) PTC / PTU tasting ability

4. Indices
1. Cephalic index, 2. Nasal index, 3. Facial index, 4.Jugo-frontal index, 5. Body mass index
(BMI)

References :
1. Mukherjee, D., Mukherji, D. P. and Bharati, P. (2009). Laboratory Manual of Biological
anthropology. Asian Books Pvt. Ltd. , New Delhi, India.
2. Sarkar, R.M. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata.
3. Sen, T. (1994). Guide to Anthropometry. World Press, Kolkata.
4. Mukherjee, D. (2018). Joibik Nribijnan. Scholar Pub. House, Kolkata.

Semester 3

ANT-G-3-CC/GE -3 –TH Credit 4

A. PRIMATE EVOLUTION

UNIT – I: THEORIES OF EVOLUTION

Lamarckism, Darwinism, Synthetic theory

UNIT -II: Living primates

a. Definition (Mivart) and general characteristic features of order Primates.
b. Evolutionary trends of the Primates.
c. Classification of the order Primates –G.G. Simpson (1945) and modified by Simons (1972)
with features and example up to family.
d. Platyrrhine and Catarrhine monkeys- distribution, characteristics anddifferences. Anthropoid
apes: Features, classification, distribution, and social behaviour of the anthropoid apes.
f. Skeletal comparison of anthropoid apes with that of man.

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UNIT – III: Fossil Primates (chronology, features and phylogeny).
a. Dryopithecus, Sivapithecus, Ramapithecus
b. Earlier hominid-A. afarensis, and A. africanus
c. Emergence of genius Homo- H. habilis, H. erectus, (Java and Peking variety).
d. Emergence of Archaic Homo sapiens- Neanderthal (La chapelle-aux–saints and Tabun)
e. Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens- Cro-Magnon

References:

1. Krober, A.L. (1948). Anthropology. Oxford& IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.
2. Sarkar, R.M. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata.
3. Mukherjee, D. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan. J.N. Pub. House.
4. Jurmain, R., Kilgore, L. Trethan, W., Ciochon, R.L. (2012). Introduction to Physical
anthropology. Wadsworth Publ., USA
5. Krober, A.L. (1948). Anthropology. Oxford &IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.
6. Kotta, C.P. (2000). Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity. McGraw Hill
Co. Inc.
7. Napier, J.R and Napier, P.H. (1994). The Natural History of Primates. The MIT Press.
8. Seth, P.K. and Seth, S. (1996). The Primates. Northern Book Centre, New Delhi.
9. Hooton, A. E. (1994). Up from the Ape. The McMillan Co. NY, USA.
10. Le Gross Clark, W.E. (1971). The Antecedents of Man. Edinburgh University Press.
11. Day, M.H. (1965). Guide to Fossil Man. World Pub. Co., Cleave Land.
12. Simpson, G. G. 1945. “The Principles of Classification and a Classification of
Mammals.” Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 85: 1–350.
13. Simons EL 1972 Primate Evolution: An Introduction to Man's Place in Nature. New
York: Macmillan Press

B. ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY I
Prehistory of India (to be studied on a regional basis).
UNIT – I: A brief history of Indian prehistory.
The classifications and nomenclatures of the prehistoric cultural periods of India. Study of
prehistoric cultures from the earliest evidences up to the beginning of historical times on a
regional basis.
UNIT – II Palaeolithic India: brief outlines of the following regional cultures –a) north
India-a) Sohan river valley, Beas- Banganga river valley; b) Central India-Narmada valley; c)
Eastern India- Subarnarekha, Tarafeni, Gandheswari river valleys, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar;
d)South India- Kortalayar river valley; e) Western India- Nevasa
UNIT – III Microlithic cultures of India: brief outlines of the following regional cultures:
a) Eastern India b) Central India c) Western India d) southern India. With reference to teaching
the microlithic cultures, focus is to be given more on regional variability and environmental
adaptability rather than being site specific. Where ever available, the dates are also to be given.

References:
1. Sankalia, H.D. (1974 ). Prehistory and Proto-History of India and Pakistan.
2. Misra VD, and Pal JN, (2002). (Ed.) Mesolithic India. Allahabad: Department of Ancient
History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad.

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 3. Bhattacharya D. K. (1995) . An outline of Indian Prehistory. Palaka Pub.

C. SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY II

Political Anthropology: The major theoretical approaches of political anthropology and or

anthropology of power and politics; Political processes, such as factionalism, styles of
leadership, political rituals. Comparative study of political institutions in simple and
complex cultures; race, regional and/ or linguistic groups, state/nationhood, religions and
ethnicity and(inter-) ethnic relations, social movements.
Anthropology and Contemporary Social Issues: population growth; poverty, inequality and
justice; Issues of gender and sexuality; warfare (nuclear, biological, imperial) and peace; terror;
marginalization and exclusion; epidemic diseases and disaster; social movements;
Regional Anthropology: South Asia:
a) Religion, functions of religion, animism, animatism, nature worship, Regionalism, nationalism
in India.
b) Varna, Jati/caste, caste system in India, Jajmani system, Caste system and inequalities in
India.
c) Peasant village: Feature, habitation, economy and changes

References:

1. Nanda, S. (1984). Cultural Anthropology. Wadsworth Publ. Company, California.

2. Bandopadhyay, S. ((2010). Samajik Sanskritik Nribijanan,(in Bengali), Parul, Kolkata.
3. Jha, M. (1994). An Introduction to Social Anthropology. Vikas Pub. House Pvt. Ltd. New
Delhi.
4. Dube, S.C. (1952). Social Anthropology, Hyderabad.
5. Majumder, D.N. and Madan T.N. (1956). An Introduction to Social anthropology, Asia
Publ. House, Bombay.
6. Srivastava, A.R.N. (1997). What is Anthropology? K.K. Pub., Allahabad, India.
Doshi, S.L. and Jain, P.C. (2001). Social Anthropology. Rawat Pub. Jaipur.

ANT-G-3-CC/GE -3 –P Credit 2

UNIT – I: Archaeological Anthropology

1. A basic idea of flint knapping techniques
2. Understanding the significance of selection of raw materials
3. Identification of forms of raw materials, i.e. core, flake, blade……...
4. Learning the procedure of drawing tools in the laboratory.
5. Drawing of core tool, flake tool, blade tool, micro blade and polished tool (Hand axe,
cleaver chopper, scraper, point, burin, laurel leaf point, baton-de commandment, harpoon
(uni-barbed/ multi-barbed), lunate, adze, celt, ring stone) along with their features,
cultural stages, hafting techniques and probable uses.
6. Understanding the development of stone tools in the context through study of their typo -
technology.
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Drawing on graph paper 2 typical tools from each stages - lower, middle, upper Paleolithic and
microlithic.
7. Comparative analyses of these tools both on the bases of their morphological attributes
(e.g.shape, no. of primary and secondary flake scars, shapes and depth of the flake scars,
amount of retouching, backing, continuity of working edge.) as well as their metric
attributes (length, breadth, cross sections, dorsal and ventral view)
Finally trying to mark rough indicators of techno- typological development of stone tools in
India by inductive codification from the above analyses.

Study of topo-sheets for understanding the geophysical, political, socio-economic, population

density, rural, urban, suburban, developmental and any other relevant information/features of an
area.

References:
1. Barker, P. (1982). Techniques of Archaeological excavations. London, Batsford.
2. Hole, F and Heizer, R.F. (1973). Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology. Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, New york;
3. Renfrew, C. and paul, Bahn. (1991). Theories, Methods and Practicesi. London, Thames
and Hudson.
4. Sarkar, R.M. (2003). Babyaharik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata.

Semester 4

ANT-G-4-CC/GE -4-TH Credit 4

A. BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

a. Forensic anthropology: Personal identification from blood groups and skeleton. Paternity
diagnosis
b. Genetic counseling: definition, aim and methods. Genetic counseling for autosomal
(thalassemia) and X chromosomal (haemophilia) inheritance

c. Birth defects: Teratogens, substance abuse, Alcohol, Smoking, Occupational Hazards d. Bio-
statistics: Measure of central tendency- mean, median, mode, standard deviation, standard
error of mean.

Reference:
1. Lewis, R. ((1997). Human Genetics: Concepts and Application. McGraw- Hill, USA.
2. Umrao, S.P. (2002). Statistical Analysis. Chanakya Pub. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
3. Sarkar, R.M. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata.
4. Madrigal L. (2012). Statistics for Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.

Reference:

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 5. Lewis, R. ((1997). Human Genetics: Concepts and Application. McGraw- Hill, USA.
6. Umrao, S.P. (2002). Statistical Analysis. Chanakya Pub. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
7. Sarkar, R.M. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata.
8. Madrigal L. (2012). Statistics for Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
9. Cummings, H. and Midlo, C. (1961). Finger prints, palms and soles: An Introduction to
Dermatoglyphics. (vol. 319). New York: Dover Publ.

B. ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY II

UNIT – I. Neolithic cultures of India: brief outlines of the following regional cultures: a)
Eastern India b) Central India c) Western India d) Southern India e) Northern India f)North- east
India. In dealing with Neolithic India, emphasis is to be given on regional features and
variability.

UNIT – II. Earliest Civilizations: Concept/ features of civilization according to Braidwood and
Childe. Mesopotamian, Egyptian civilizations- brief ideas. Harappan civilizations – to be studied
in details.
Chalcolitihic India- classification and characters.

C. SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY III

Anthropology of Religion
Indigenous Religions: Topics (concepts and / or definition) include myth and ritual, sorcery,
witchcraft and divination; animism, animatism, totem and taboo, magic, and shamanism,
sacrifice, spirit possession, initiation rituals, witchcraft and other institutionalized principal
religions of the World
Backward Communities in India and Development
Indian tribes: an outline of anthropological studies, distribution according to linguistic groups,
economy, geographical region. Sectors, Problems, plans and agencies of development, welfare of
the tribes, S.C. and O.B.C. in India, Constitutional provisions and safeguards of the S.C., S.T.
and O.B.C.
Panchayati raj, with special emphases in West Bengal.

References:

1. Sarkar, R.M. (2003). Joibik Nribijnan (In Bengali), knowledge House, Kolkata.
2. Jha, M. (1994). An Introduction to Social Anthropology. Vikas Pub. House Pvt. Ltd. New
Delhi.
3. Doshi, S.L. and Jain, P.C. (2001). Social Anthropology. Rawat Pub. Jaipur.

ANT-G-4-CC/GE -4-P Credit 2

TRAINING IN FIELD WORK

Research Approaches: Overview of Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Research,
Methodologies and Types of research. Respective Methods and techniques of data
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Collection and Modes of Analysis; Types of data; Ethical Issues; Styles of Fieldwork. The
students are expected to learn how do they apply them in their training.
The training for the fieldwork (with / without camp life) is to be undertaken on any
previously less known / unknown community or group or settlement or network or
problem.
Not more than 7 DAYS of fieldwork
The students are expected to reflect on learning from the participation in and guidance of the
supervisor/s training them for fieldwork
The supervisor/s in the setting will help the students making out the issues of research
approaches mentioned above.
The report must contain updated and relevant understanding of methodology and its relation
with the present work.
There must be references of the relevant works in that area or its related ones.
Suitable and contextually proper presentation of the qualitative and quantitative data are
expected in the report.
The report on the methodology, field diary / experience and the concluding chapter are
supposed to maintain individuality and meaningful intensity.
The report also must contain the followings:
a. Introduction and field techniques
b. About the region under study
c. Description of the village including layout
d. Population analysis including tables, analysis and diagrams
e. Economic pursuits of the villagers (general description as well as at least one case study of any
one economic pursuit) including material culture.
f. Developmental aspects
g. General observation & conclusion
The report needs to contain their learning of ―Research Approaches and the applications in
their fieldwork.

Semester 5

ANT-G-5-DSE-1A Human Growth and Development Credit 4

ANT-G-DSE-1A -TH
Introduction to human growth and development. Prenatal growth. Post natal growth. Factors
affecting growth. Methods of studying growth: Cross sectional, longitudinal, and mix cross
sectional, Growth curves. Human nutrition: food, diet, nutrition and metabolism (definitions
only); the basic nutrients- micro and macro nutrients, their sources, and utility, Malnutrition:
over and under nutrition.

ANT-G-5-DSE-1A-P
Credit 2
Project/ Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE-1A -TH

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ANT-G-5-DSE-2A Contribution to Archaeological Anthropology in India

Credit 4
ANT-G-5-DSE-2A -TH
Classification of Indian Archaeology (Verma, 1997)
Period-I (1840-1940) Pre Sankalia era
Period-II (1940—1990) Sankalia era
Period-III (1990 onwards) Post Sankalia era
Contribution of Meadows Taylor, Robert Bruce Foote, , Sir Martin Wheller, DeTerra and
Patterson, H.D. Sankalia.

ANT-G-5-DSE-2A -P
Credit 2
Project / Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE-2A -TH

ANT-G-5-DSE-3A Environment and Anthropology

ANT-G-5-DSE-3A-TH
Credit 4
Introduction to environmental anthropology, History and development of environmental
anthropology. Basic concepts of ecology. Human adaptability, Environment/Habitat, Ecology,
Culture environment relationship.Health and environment.Forest policies in India.Movements
related to the protection of Environment in India, Environmental justice.

ANT-G-5-DSE-3A-P Credit 2
Project / Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE-3A-TH

Semester 6

ANT-G-6-DSE-1B Food and Anthropology Credit 4

ANT-G-6-DSE-1B-TH

What is food?

I. Classic Ethnographies
II. Anthropological Perspectives on Diet
III. Classification of Food
IV. Food and
a. Eating and Cuisine
b. Identity

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 c. Tables and Table Manners
d. Social Change
e. Religion and Rituals
f. Security
g. Globalization
V. Disorders of food and eating
VI. Specific Food Cultures
a. Food Culture: Any Indian Case Study
References:
1. Barua Pinky and Kedilezo Kikhi. 2016.Culinary Traditions, Aesthetics and Practices:
Constructing the Cultural Identity of Amri Karbis of Northeast India. The Journal of
Northeast Indian Cultures. Volume 3, Number 1,: 63-77
2. Fox, Robin. 2003. Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective. Available from:
www.sirc.org/publik/foxfood.pdf (accessed January 03, 2018).
3. Lim Chan Ing. 2011. A Brief Introduction to Anthropological Perspectives on Diet: Insights
into the Study of. Overseas Chinese, Asian Culture and History, Vol. 3, pp. 86-93,
4. Mintz, Sidney W. and Christine M. Du Bois. 2002 The Anthropology of Food and Eating.
Annual Review of Anthropology 31:99-119.
5. Phillips Lynne. Food and Globalization Annual. Rev. Anthropology. 2006.35:37-57.
6. Ragavan, P. (2003), “Food in a Globalised world-A cultural perspective”, Journal of
International University Centre, I.I.A.S. Shimla, Vol.10, Iss.1, Summer, pp.143- 156
7. Waldstein Anna. 2018 Edited by Hilary Callan Anthropology of Food The International
Encyclopedia of Anthropology.. John Wiley & Sons
8. Warren. Belasco, 2008. Identity: Are We What We Eat? In Food: The Key Concepts of Food.
Oxford: Berg. 15-34.
9. Wilson, T.N. (2006). Food, drink and identity in Europe: consumption and construction of
local, national and cosmopolitan culture. In Thomas N. Wilson (ed.). Food, Drink and
Identity in Europe. New York: Rodopi B.V. (pp. 11-27).

ANT-G-6-DSE-1B-P

Practical Credit 2
Project/ Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE-1B-TH

ANT-G-6-DSE-2B Advanced Human Genetics

ANT-G-6-DSE-2B-TH Credit 4

Theory

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History of Genetics, Paradigms of Human Genetics; Mendelian genetics, , DNA and RNA
structure and DNA replication, DNA repair, and recombination, gene expression, coding and
non-coding region, Nuclear and Mitocondrial DNA, Expression of protein, transcriptions,
transcription (protein synthesis), Outline concept of epigenetics in human genetics, Cytogenetics;
concept of karyotype, Banging (G banding) and high resolution FISH. Concept of point
mutation; Family study; pedigree analysis, concept of dominant, recessive and co-dominant
inheritance, Penetrance and expressivity; Sex linkage (Dominant and recessive) and sex
influenced traits. Electrophoresis, PCR technology and sequencing (Concept and outline)

ANT-G-6-DSE-2B-P
Practical Credit 2
Project/ Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE-2B-TH

References:

1. Barkley, G.W. (1958). Techniques of Population Analysis. John Willey and Sons, New
York.
2. Kertzer, D. I. and Fricke, T. 91997). Anthropological Demography. University of
Chicago Press, London.
3. Bernardi, L. (2007). An Introduction to Anthropological Demography. Man Plank
Institute for demographic Research Working Paper WP 2007-031, Germany.
4. Barua, S. (2000). Human Genetics: An anthropological Perspective. ClassiqueBooks,
Kolkata.
5. Lewis, R. (2009). Human Genetics: Concepts and Application> The McGraw-Hill
companies, Inc.
6. Patch, R. (2005). Applied Genetics in Health Care. Taylor and Francis Group.
7. Strachan, T and Read AP. (2004). Human Molecular Genetics. Garland Science.
8. Commings, MR. (2011). Human Heredity: Principles and issues. Brooks? Cole, Cengage
Learning.

ANT-G-6-DSE-3B Heritage Management

ANT-G-6-DSE-3B-TH
Theory Credit 4

Introduction to Heritage Understanding the meaning of heritage; types of heritage (tangible,

intangible and living); defining ‘heritage’ and its ‘value’ and ‘significance’; Classification of
cultural assets.

History, Theory and Concepts of Conservation: History and development of conservation,

Conservation principles and practices.

Cultural Heritage Management Conservation plan, Management plan, Project management,

Heritage economics, Risk preparedness, Disaster management, Sustainable conservation,
Popularizing archaeology, Community participation.

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Sustainability and Conservation Ideology behind the use of local material and techniques for
conservation, eco-friendly approaches, understanding global issues related to heritage
conservation, sustainable conservation.

Museum Studies Introduction the notion of a ‘museum’, types of museums, curation, material
culture, material conservation, documentation and cataloguing, visitor experience, museum as an
educational space.

References:
1. Allchin, F.R. 1969.Cultural Tourism in India-Its Scope and Development.UNESCO.

2. Ambrose, T& C. Paine. 1993. Museum Basics. ICOM, Landon &NewYork.

3. Bhatia, A.K. 1997. International Tourism: Fundamentals and Practise. Sterling Pub. Pvt.
Ltd.

4. Blake, Janet. 2015. International Cultural Heritage Law. Oxford University Press, New
York.

5. Brusasco, Paul. 2012. Looting the Past. University of Italy.

6. Cleere, Henry. 2012. Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World.

7. Durbach, Andrea &Lucas Lixinski. 2017. Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging
Legal Discourses. Hart Publishing, Oregon

8. Edson, G. & D. Dean. 2000. The Handbook for Museums, London & New York

9. Keene, S. 1990. Managing Conservation. London.

10. Nafziger, James A.R. 2012. Cultural Heritage Law. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

11. Punia, Bijender, K. 1994. Tourism Management: Problem & Perspectives. Ashish Pub.
House.

12. UNESCO. 2015. The World's Heritage: A Complete Guide to the Most Extraordinary
Places.

13. UNESCO. 2013. Managing Cultural World Heritage.

ANT-G-6-DSE-3B-P
Practical Credit 2
Project/ Report on any chosen topic from ANT-G-DSE-3B-TH

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 Ability Enhancement Elective (Skill Based)

Semester 3

ANT-G-3-SEC-A (1):

ANT-G-SEC-A (1) - 1-Public health and epidemiology Credit 2

Unit I: Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health: Overview of epidemiology methods used in

research studies to address disease patterns in community and clinic-based populations,
distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specific populations, and
strategies to control health problems.

Unit II: Psychological, Behavioural, and Social Issues in Public Health; Cultural, social,
behavioural, psychological and economic factors that influence health and illness.

References:

1. Gordis L. (2004). Epidemiology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.

2. Remington, PL, Brownson RC, and Wegner MV. (2010). Chronic Disease, Epidemiology and
Control. American Public Health Association.
3. Pagano, M. and Gauvreau, K. (2000). Principles of Biostatistics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
4. Turnock, B. (2011). Public health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
5. Edberg M. (2013). Essentials of Health Behavior. Social and Behavioral Theory in Public
Health. Second Edition, Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
6. Griffith, JR and White, KR. (2010). The Well-Managed Health care Organization. Health
Administration Press: Chicago, IL.
7. Kovner AR, McAlearney, AS, Neuhauser, D. (2013). Health Services Management: Cases,
Readings, and Commentary. 10th Ed. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.
8. Lee, LM. (2010). Principles and Practice of Public Health Surveillance. Oxford University
Press
9. Merson, M. Black, RE. Mills, A. (2006). International Public Health: Diseases, Programs,
Systems and Policies. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Or

ANT-G-3-SEC-A (1)- 2-: ANTHROPOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT Credit 2

Anthropology and Development: The Pros and Cons of the Relationship

1. Anthropology in Development: Cardoso

2. The World of Development and Anthropology: Bouju
3. The Uneasy Relationship: Lewis, Gow.

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 4. Development Anthropology: The Aspects, Phases, Actions, Debates: Grammig. 2nd
Chap.; Gow; Edelman and Haugerud: Introduction
5. Speaking on behalf of ‘those’ Others: Cardoso
6. Anthropology of Development and Development Anthropology: Edelman and
Haugerud: Introduction, Escobar
References:

1. Jacky Bouju. 2011. Application of Development Anthropology: Applied

Anthropologists and Practitioners. Cahiers d’étudesafricaines. 202-203. 563 - 589
2. David, Gow. 2002 Anthropology and Development: Evil Twin or Moral Narrative?
Human Organization 61(4): 299–313.
3. Joana G. Cardoso, (2007). .Applied and academic anthropology in
development: Distance or engagement? Antropologia, Escala e Memoria, 2(N.S.):
102–117.
4. Lewis, D. (2005): Anthropology and development: the uneasy relationship [online].
London: LSE. Research Online. <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/253/1/
5. Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, eds., (2005).The Anthropology of
Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary
Neoliberalism. Oxford: Blackwell
6. Thomas Grammig. (2002). Technical knowledge and development: observing aid
projects and processes. London: Routledge.

Semester 4

ANT-G-4-SEC-B (1):

ANT-G-4-SEC-B (1)-3. ANTHROPOLOGY AND TOURISM Credit 2

I. Introducing the Core: Anthropology, Tourism and Tourists

II. Brief Introduction to Related Concepts and Methods

1. Authenticity
2. Community-based tourism
3. Culinary tourism
4. Cultural tourism
5. Culture broker
6. Ecotourism
7. Ethnic tourism
8. Policy and policymaking
9. Safari
10. Sex tourism

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III. Development and Tourism in Developing Countries

References:
Burns Peter, M. (1999).An introduction to tourism and anthropology. By. London and New
York: Routledge
Harrison, D. (2015) Development theory and tourism in developing countries: what has theory
ever done for us? International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 11(1), 53–82.
JafarJafari and Honggen Xiao, eds. (2016). Impact In Encyclopedia of Tourism. Cham: Springer
International Publishing.
Licinio, Cunha, (2012). "The Definition and Scope of Tourism: A Necessary Inquiry ", Cogitut -
Journal of Tourism Studies, pp 91 – 114

OR

ANT-G-4-SEC-B (1) - 4.: MEDIA AND ANTHROPOLOGY Credit 2

I. Media Anthropology
1. Media, Mass and Anthropology
2. The Paradox: Definitions, Actors, Fields, Methods, Strategies and taboo, Case of
Illustration
3. Media Effects Tradition
4. Themes and problems
5. Controversies
6. The Possible Contribution of Anthropology
7. Examples of use of anthropology in communication
References:

1. S. Hjarvard (2008) The mediatization of society. A theory of the media as agents of

social and cultural change. Nordicom Review, 29 (2), p.105-134.
2. Osorio, Francisco. (2001). Mass media anthropology. Social Sciences Faculty and
Philosophy and Humanities Faculty: University of Chile
3. Mihai Coman (2003). Media Anthropology: An Overview. University of Bucharest,
Romania
4. Rothenbuhler, E. (2008) Media Anthropology as a Field of Interdisciplinary Contact.
Available at: www.media-anthropology.net/workingpapers.htm.

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 Semester 5

ANT-G-5-SEC-A (2) -5.: Physiological Anthropology Credit 2

Unit I
Fundamentals of work physiology- homeostasis; metabolism and energy and systems;
exercise, respiratory system and haemodynamics (blood pressure, pulse rate, heart rate
and oxygen- transporting system, blood flow, Hb)

Unit II
Cardio-vascular and respiratory endurance, physical working capacity and physical
fitness- evaluation of response and assessment; aerobic and anaerobic exercise training,
health related fitness in gender and ethnic group.
Impact of smoking, alcohol, drug, pollution and occupation on cardio-respiratory
functions; physical performance and environmental stress, chronic diseases,
malnutrition, lifestyle disease/disorders.

References:

1. McArdle, WD. Katch, FI. And Katch, VL. (2010). Exercise Physiology: Nutrition,
Energy, and Human Performance. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
2. Powers, SK and Howley, ET. (2007). Exercise Physiology: Theory and Application to
Fitness and Performance. McGraw-Hill.
3. Ghosh Jyoti Ratan and Bandyopadhyay Arup R. 2013.Central adiposity and the risk of
hypertension in Asian Indian girls. World Journal of Pediatrics. 9(3):256-260.
4. Sherwood L. (2008). Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems. Brooks Cole.
5. Case RM. (1985). Variations in Human Physiology. Manchester University Press.
6. Vander AJ, Sherman JH and Dorothys, L. (1978). Human Physiology: The Mechanisms
of Body Functions. Mc Graw-Hill Education.
7. Nageswari, KS. and Sharma, S. (2006) Practical workbook of Human Physiology.
Jaypee Brothers, Medical Publisher.
8. Wildmaier, EP., Raff, H. Strang, KT. (2014). Vander's Human Physiology: The
Mechanisms of Body. McGraw Hill Education.
9. Hale T. (2003). Exercise Physiology. England, John Wiley & Sons Inc.

OR

ANT-G-5-SEC-A (2)-6.: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Credit 2

Unit – 1

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a) Medical Anthropology: Definition and major areas of study; Goals and basic premises
b) Anthropology in Medicine and Anthropology of Medicine
c) Clinical Anthropology and Medical Anthropology
d) Ethnomedicinal Anthropology: Disease aetiology, disease classification, diagnosis and
healing in folk societies; Culture bound syndromes, Traditional Medicine in India

References:
i) Leiban, R. W. (1974): Medical Anthropology In Hand Book of Social and Cultural
Anthropology (Ed) Honnigman; Chicago, Rand McNally& Co (pages 1031 -1071)
ii) Brown, J Peter. Ronanld, L. Barret, Mark B Padilla (1998) Medical Anthropology: An
Understanding to the Fields; In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology (Ed) Brown
J Peter; California, Mayfield Publishing Company.
iii) Janzen, M. John (2002): The Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical
Anthropology, Newyork, McGraw Hill
iv) Johnson, T.M & Sargent, F.G. (Ed)( 1990): Medical Anthropology: A Hand Book of Theory
and Method; New York, Green wood Press
v) Ember and Ember (2004): Encyclopaedia of Medical anthropology: Health and Illness in
World Cultures. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York
vi) Johnson, T.M. & Sargent, FG. (Ed) (1990): Medical Anthropology: A Hand Book of Theory
and Method; New York, Green wood Press
vii) Foster, M George & Anderson, B. G. (1978): Medical Anthropology, New York, John Wiley
& Sons; PP51 -79
viii) Leslie Charles, C. (1976): Asian Medical Systems, Berkeley, University of California Press
ix) Banarjee, B. G. and Ritual, J. (1988): Folk Illness and Ethno medicine, New Delhi, Northern
Book Centre
x) Joshi, P.C, & Anil Mahajan (Ed) (1990): Medical Anthropology, New Delhi, Reliance
Publishing House.
xi) Salil Basu (Ed) (1994): Tribal Health in India, Delhi, Manak Publications
Khan, Shamshad Khan, (2006) Systems of medicine and nationalist discourse in India: Towards
‘‘new horizons’’ in medical anthropology and history. Social Science & Medicine 62 (2006)
2786–2797

Semester 6

ANT-G-6-SEC-B (2)-7: Earliest Evidences of Urbanisation in India Credit 2

18. Harappan Cultural Tradition: general Framework and chronology:

a. Pre/Early Harappan cultures of the Indian subcontinent

iii. Mature Harappan

a. Geographical Distribution and Settlement Pattern

b. Subsistence of the Harappans- plant and animal diet, agriculture and agriculture system,
water management, exploitation of natural resources.
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 c. Social, Political, Religious and Economic organization
iv. Decline and the Late Harappan
d. Various factors and theories about the Harappan Decline and consequences

References:
1. Bhargava, P. 2001. India in the Vedic Age: A History of Aryan Expansion in India. Delhi: D.
K. Print
2. Chakravarty, K. K., and R. G. Bednarik. 1997. Indian Rock Art in Global Context. Delhi:
Motilas Banarasidass & IGRMS.
3. Clark, J.D. and Sharma, G.R. (Eds.) Palaeoenvironment and Prehistory in the Middle Son
Valley, Madhya Pradesh, North Central India. Allahabad: Abinash Prakashan.
4. Dhavalikar , MK, 2013 editor. Prehistory of India. New Delhi: Manohar
5. Misra, VD. And Pal, JN. (2002) (eds). Mesolithic India. Allahabad: Department of Ancient
History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad.
6. Paddayya, K. and Sushama, G. Deo. (Eds.) Recent Advances in Acheulian Culture Studies in
India. ISPQS Monograph No.6.

7. Paddayya, K. and Sushama, G. Deo. (2017). Prehistory of South Asia (The Lower Palaeolithic
or Formative Era of Hunting-Gathering), The Mythic Society, Bengaluru, pp. 152
8. Pandey, S. K. 1993. Indian Rock Art. Delhi: Aryan Books International.
9. Pappu, R. S. 2001. Acheulian culture in peninsular India: an ecological perspective. New
Delhi: D.K. Print world.
10. Pappu S, Y. Gunnell, M.Taieb and A. Kumar ( 2004). Preliminary report on excavations at
the Palaeolithic site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu (1999–2004), Man and Environment
29(2):1-17.
11. Pappu Shanti, Yanni Gunnell, Kumar Akhilesh, Régis Braucher, Maurice Taieb, François
Demory, Nicolas Thouveny. (2011). Early Pleistocene Presence of Acheulian Hominins in South
India. Science, Vol.331, pp. 1596-1599
12. Pappu, S. and A.Kumar (2006). Preliminary Observations on the Acheulian Assemblages
from Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, in Axe Age. Acheulian Toolmaking from Quarry to Discard,
(N.Goren-Inbar and G. Sharon Eds.), pp. 155-180. London: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
13. Pappu, S., (2007). Changing trends in the study of a Palaeolithic site in India: a century of
research at Attirampakkam, in The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia,
Inter-disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics
series (M.D.Petraglia and B.Allchin Eds.), pp. 121-135. Dordrecht, Springer.
14. Pappu, S., Y. Gunnell, A. Kumar, R. Braucher, M. Taieb, F. Demory and N. Thouveny
(2011). Early Pleistocene Presence of Acheulian Hominins in South India, Science, 25th March:
1596-1599.

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15.Sankalia, H.D. (1974). The Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan. Pune: Deccan College
Postgraduate and Research Institute.

16. Settar, S. and R. Korisettar (eds). (2002). Indian Archaeology in Retrospect Prehistory
Archaeology of South Asia Vol. I. Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research and Manohar

17. Singh, Upinder. (2015). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age
to the 12th century. Delhi: Pearson.
18. Thapar, Romila. (1999). From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First
Millenium BC in the Ganga Valley. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

OR
ANT-G-6-SEC-B (2)-8. Anthropological Demography Credit 2

Basic concepts of demography, Historical background. Aims and objectives of demography,

Importance of Anthropological demography, Sources of demographical data, Various terms in
demography: census, cohort, fertility, mortality, fecundity, life expectancy, life table, migration,
parity, morbidity, population control, Vital statistics- measures of fertility and mortality.

Readings:

1. Barkley, G. W. (1958). Techniques of, Population Analysis. John Willey and Sons, NY, USA.
2. Howell, N. (1986). Demographic Anthropology. Annual review of Anthropology. 15 : 2019-
46.
3. Kertzer, D. I. and Fricke T. (1997). Anthropological Demography. University of Chicago
Press, London.
3. Bernardi, L. (2007). An introduction to Anthropological Demography. Max Planck Institute
for Demographic Research working paper WP 2007-031. Germany.
4. Barua, S. (2002). Human Genetics : An Anthropological Perspective. Classique Books,
Kolkata.
5. Cox Peter. (1950). Demography, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
6. Pearl Raymond: The Biology of Population Growth. 1929. American Journal of Sociology.35
(3): 403-410
7. Pakrasi Kanti B., Banerjee Amulya Ratan, Halder Ajit Kumar. (edts) 1980. The Calcutta
Couples: A Biosocial Profile. Editions India, Kolkata
8. Pakrasi Kanti B., Banerjee Amulya Ratan, Halder Ajit Kumar. (edts) 1976.Biosocial Studies
in India: A Reading in Collected Papers, 1961-70. Editions India, Kolkata

9. Kertzer, D. I. and Fricke, T. 91997). Anthropological Demography. University of Chicago

Press, London.

10. Bernardi, L. (2007). An Introduction to Anthropological Demography. Man Plank Institute

for demographic Research Working Paper WP 2007-031, Germany

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