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IMPACT OF HINDUISM OVER TRIBAL SOCIETIES By Dr. Suresh Gurramkonda

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Anthropology Paper II Syllabus section: Impact of Hinduism on tribal societies. Introduction Impact of Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest Religion, with roots and customs dating back more than 4,000 years. Today, Hinduism is the third-largest religion behind Christianity and Islam. Roughly 95 percent of the world’s Hindus live in India. Hinduism is unique …

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H.D. SANKALIA AND HIS MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY By Dr. Suresh Gurramkonda

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Anthropology Paper II Syllabus Section: Unit 4; Contributions of various anthropologists and scholars. Introduction H.D. SANKALIA (Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia) is one of the most important field oriented archaeological anthropologist from Deccan College. Along with others like Iravati Karve he has discovered many prehistoric Indian sites, and they helped to set the chronology and continuity of …

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DESCENT AND ALLIANCE THEORIES By Dr. Suresh Gurramkonda

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ANTHROPOLOGY PAPER I Syllabus Section: 2.5 Kinship/ Descent And Alliance Theories to Study Kinship Introduction In the context of kinship, anthropologists proposed two theories to study kinship viz; the descent and alliance theories. This was to work out the different structures of kinship through the models based on birth and marriage ties. Alliance Theory: Alliance …

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METHODOLOGIES FOR HUMAN GROWTH STUDIES By Dr. Suresh Gurramkonda

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Anthropology Paper I Syllabus Section: 10. Concept of Human Growth & Development / Methodologies for human growth studies. Human Growth and Development In the context of human growth studies and development, Growth is define as an irreversible constant increase in size whereas development is define as growth in psychomotor capacity. Both the processes are highly …

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HISTORICAL PARTICULARISM BY DR.SURESH GURRAMKONDA

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(Anthropology Paper I) Syllabus Section: 6. Anthropological theories Introduction Historical Particularism is a detailed descriptive approach to anthropology, associated with Franz Boas and his students. Though Boas provided the concept of historical particularism, he did not coin the term. The term ‘historical particularism’ was coin by Marvin Harris in 1968. Historical particularism developed as a …

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M.N. SRINIVAS AND HIS MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY BY DR.SURESH GURRAMMKONDA / MN SRINIVAS

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ANTHROPOLOGY PAPER II Syllabus Section: 4. Emergence & Growth of Anthropology in India; Contributions of various scholars and anthropologists. Introduction MN Srinivas is known as a field-orient Indological worker with a structural-functional approach. He was strongly influence by the fieldwork of both A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski. This interest enable him to conduct his first …

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MAJOR APPROACHES OF ESTABLISHING PRE HISTORIC CHRONOLOGY BY DR. SURESH GURRAMKONDA | ABSOLUTE DATING METHODS

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Anthropology Paper I Syllabus Section: 1.8 (a) Principles of Prehistoric Archaeology Chronology: Relative and Absolute Dating methods. Accurate knowledge about the age of artifacts or archaeological remains is one of the major tasks in archaeological investigations. A fundamental factor in interpreting and reconstructing the cultural past is by calculating the age of artifacts and other …

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