MPSC Syllabus 2021 - Syllabus for MCSCC Mains

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.