Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission, known commonly as HPPSC, is a government agency and topmost constitutional body of Government of Himachal Pradesh. Here is a detailed syllabus for HPAS Main Exam Optional Paper 3.
Optional Paper – ANTHROPOLOGY
PAPER-I
- Meaning, scope and historic perspective of Anthropology.
- Relationship with other disciplines: History, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Zoology, Medical Science.
- Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance:-
- Social cultural Anthropology;
- Physical and biological Anthropology;
- Archaeological Anthropology.
- Emergence of Man and Human Evolution:-
- Emergence of man its time, place and subsequent dispersal of the various continents.
- Origin and evolution all the sequential stages with features.
- Principles of systematics and taxonomy, major primate taxa, tertiary and quaternary fossil primates, systematics of Hominoidae and Hominidae.
- Family - Definition and typology of family, household and domestic groups. Basic structure and functions; stability and changes in family. Typology and processual approaches to the study of family, Impact of urbanization, industrialization, education and feminist movements. University of family- a critique.
- Concept of Kinship: Definition of kin, incest prohibition exogamy and endogamy.
- Principles of descent- types and functions. Political and rural aspects of kinship. Unilineal, bilateral and double descent. Descent, filiation and complementary filiation. Kinship terminology Alliance and descent.
- Marriage- Definitions, types and variation of marriage systems. Debates on the universal definition of marriage. Regulation of marriage-preferential, proscriptive and open system.
- Types and form of marriage dowry, bride-price, gestation, marriage stability.
PAPER-II
- Evolution of the Indian Culture and Civilization-Pre historic (Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic), Protohistoric (Indus Civilization). Vedic and post-Vedic beginning. Contributions of the tribal cultures.
- Demographic profile of India-Ethic and Linguistic elements in the Indian population and their distribution. Indian population growth patterns factors influencing its structure and growth.
- The basis structure and nature of traditional Indian social system-a critique. Varnasharm. Purushartha, Karma, Rina and Rebirth. Theories on the origin of caste system, Jajmani system. Structural basis of inequality in traditional Indian society. Impact of Buddhism, Jainism, Islam and Christianity on Indian Society.
- Emergence, growth and development of anthropology in India-contributions of the 19th
- Century and early 20th Century scholar administrator. Contributions of Indian anthropologist of tribal and caste studies. Contemporary nature of anthropological studies in India.
- Approaches to the study of Indian society and culture-traditional and contemporary.
- Aspects of Indian village: Historical perspective of Indian villages; Role of rural agriculture economy in rural life, its drawbacks and potentials, future of rural agroeconomy past, present and prospective future status and role of Indian villages in our national life.
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