The Manipur Public Service Commission is the Constitutional body constituted for recommending candidates for recruitment to various posts of the Government of Manipur. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for MCSCC Main Exam Optional Paper Anthropology.
MCSCC Mains Syllabus
Optional Paper - Anthropology
Paper I
- Meaning and scope Anthropology
- Relationship with other disciplines
- Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance
- Social-cultural Anthropology
- Physical and biological Anthropology
- Archaeological Anthropology.
- Human Evolution and emergence of Man.
- Phylogenetic status, characteristics and distribution of the following:
- Evolutionary trend and classification of the order Primates, Relationship with
- Cultural Evolution-broad outlines of pre-historic cultures:
- Family-Definition and typology of family, household and domestic groups. Basic structure and functions; stability and changes in family.
- Concept of kinship
- Marriage -Definition, types and variation of marriage systems
- Study of culture, patterns and processes. Concept of culture, patterns of culture, relationships between culture and civilization and society.
- Concept of Social Change and Cultural Change:
- Social structure and social organization, Role-analysis and social network.
- Concept of Society.
- Approaches to the study of culture and society-classical evolutionism, neoevolutionism, culture ecology, historical particularism and diffusionism, structuralfunctionalism, culture and personality, transaction-alism, symbolism, congnitive approach and new ethnography, post structuralism and post-modernism.
- Definitions and functions of religion. Anthropological approaches to the study of religion-evolutionary, psychological and functional.
- Meaning, scope and relevance, principles governing production, distribution and consumption in communities subsisting on hunting-gathering, fishing, pastoralism, horticulture and other economic pursuits. Fomalist and substantivist debate-Dalton,
- Theoretical foundations.
- Concepts of developmental Anthropological perspective.
- Concept of research in anthroplogy, subjectivity and reflexivity in terms of gender class, ideology and ethics.
- Concept, scope and major branches of human genetics. Its relationship with other branches of science and medicine.
- Method for study of genetic principles in man-family study (pedegree analysis, twin study, foster child, co-twin method, cytogenetic method, chromosomal and karyotype analysis), biochemical methods, immunological methods, D.N.A. technology and recombinant technologies.
- Twin study method-zygosity, heritability estimates, present status of the twin study method and its applications.
- Mendelian genetics in man-family study, single factor, multifactor, lethal, sublethal, and polygenic inheritance in man.
- Concept of genetic polymorphism and selection, Mendelian population, HardyWeinberg law; causes and changes which bring down frequency-mutation, isolation, migration, selection, inbreeding and genetic drift. Consanguineous and nonconsanguineous mating, genetic load, genetic effect of consanguineous and cousin marriages (statistical and probability methods for study of human genetics).
- Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology.
- Numerical and structural aberrations (disorders)
- Sex chromosomal aberrations-Klinefelter (XXY), Turner (XO), Super female (XXX), intersex, and other syndromic disorders.
- Autosomal aberrations-Down syndrome, Patau, Edward and Cri-du-chat syndromes.
- Genetic imprints in human disease, genetic screening, genetic counselling, human
DNA profiling, gene mapping and genome study.
PAPER II
- Evolution of the Indian Culture and Civilization-Pre historic (Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic), Protohistoric (Indus Civilization). Vedic and post-Vedic beginnings.
- Contributions of the tribal cultures.
- Demographic profile of India-Ethinic and linguistic elements in the Indian population and their distribution. Indian population, factors influencing its structure and growth.
- The basic structure and nature of traditional Indian social system-a critique. Varnasharam, 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-administrators. Contributions of Indian anthropologists to 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-Social organisations of agriculture, impact of market economy on Indian villages.
- Linguistic and religious minorities-social, political and economic status.
- Tribal situation in India-biogenetic variability, linguistic and socio-economic characteristics of the tribal populations and their distribution. Problems of the tribal Communities-land alienation, poverty indebtedness, low literacy, poor educational facilities, unemployment, underemployment, health and nutrition. Developmental projects-tribal displacement and problems of rehabilitation:
- Development of forest policy and tribals, Impact of urbanisation and industrialization on tribal and rural populations.
- Problems of exploitation and deprivation of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. Constitutional safeguards for Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes. Social change and contemporary tribal societies: Impact of modern democratic institutions, development programmes and welfare measures on tribals and weaker sections. Emergence of ethnicity, tribal movements and quest for identity. Pseudo-tribalism.
- Social change among the tribes during colonial and post-Independent India.
- Impact of Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and other religious on tribal societies.
- Tribe and nation state-a comparative study of tribal communities in India and other countries.
- History of administration of tribal areas, tribal policies, plans, programmes of tribal development and their implementation. Role of N.G.Os.
- Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development.
- Contributions of anthropology to the understanding of regionalism, communalism and ethnic and political movements.
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