Anthropology- CSS Syllabus

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ANTHROPOLOGY

100 MARKS

I. Anthropology

§ Definition of anthropology, its historical development and recent trends

II. Social Anthropology

§ Definition of culture, its characteristics and functions

§ Relationship of anthropology with other social sciences

§ Sub fields of anthropology that is Biological, archeological, linguistics

§ Institution of Family and Marriage

(Definition, types, structure, functions, family organization)

§ Kinship and Social Organization

(Definition, types, functions, kinship terminology etc)

§ Economic Organization: (Definition, evolution, substantivism versus formalism, reciprocity, production, consumption, redistribution, barter and primitive economic systems)

§ Political organization: (Definition, evolution of political system, characteristics of Band societies, tribal societies, Chiefdom, and State societies. Internal conflict theories, external conflict theories, origin of civilization, the politic of identity, ethnicity, nationalism modernism, post modernism etc

§ Religion: (Definition, evolution of primitive religions, functions of religion, comparison of divine religions and other world religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism etc

§ Contemporary human problems; such as poverty, social inequality, political instability, population problems and ethnic violence and terrorism etc


III. Urban Anthropology

Rural-urban migration, expansion of cities, major environmental issues, and sanitation problems. Urbanization and development, establishment of slums and squatter settlements, refugees, Yankees, betties, gypsies, wars and conflict. Conversion of power from feudal to industrialists, institutionalization, education system, and change in the mode of production: agriculture to Capitalists’ poverty: theories and remedies, psychological, cultural, economical, political, religious, physical, environmental, ecological, demographical, lingual, and city management. Conflict theory: Carl Marx, problems created by the mechanization and automation.

IV. Socio-Cultural Changes

Definitions of socio-cultural Changes, various Dimensions of Social Change, barriers in socio-cultural and psychological change. Motivational factors for change, Population



pressure, diffusion of innovation, socio-religious barriers in accepting the innovation and new ideas. Media and Cultural Change, Dynamics of change in Pakistan: Trends and Prospects


V. Ethnicity and race

Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity: Origin of race and theories; Ethnic Groups, Nations and Nationality; Ethnic Conflict; Degree of Social Variation; Rank Societies; caste and Class Societies; Racism and Inequality, Ethnicity and Inequality, and Social Stratification etc.


VI. Anthropological Theories

§ Contributors: (Edward Burnett Taylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, James Frazer, Kari Marx, Edmund Leach, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alfred Krobber, AR Radcliff-Brown, Malinowski, Clifford Geertz, Talal Asad, Akbar S Ahamd, ibne-Khaldoon, Shah Waliulah)

§ Classical Theories (Degenerations, Evolutionism, Diffusions,

§ Modern Theories Functionalism, Structural-functionalism, Class struggle, Structuralism, Historical Particularism, Feminism, Culture and personality)

§ Current Trends in Anthropological Thoughts: (Post Modernism, Romanticism, Poetics and Political of Ethnography)

VII. Anthropological Research Methods

§ Meaning, definition, types and aims of social research

§ Qualitative and Quantitative research

§ Purpose of research, Research Question, Variables, Hypothesis, Research Objective, Research design, Sampling, field Data Collection, Tools of Data Collection (Questionnaire, Interview, Participant Observation), Data Classification, Data Analysis, and Report Writing.

SUGGESTED READINGS

S.No.	Title	Author
1.	Anthropology	William A Haviland
2.	Cultural Anthropology	Onrad Philip Kottak
3.	Diffusion of Innovation	Evert M. Roger
4.	Socio Cultural Dynamics and impact of Technological Change	G. M. Foster
5.	Pakistani Society	Akber S. Ahmed
6.	Economic Anthropology	Sutti Ortiz
7.	Political Anthropology: An introduction	Ted. C. Lawellen

S.No.	Title	Author
8.	Pukhtun economy and society	Akber S. Ahmed
9.	Principles of Anthropology	Eliot Dismore Chapple and Carleton Stevens Coon
10.	Anthropology and Modern life	Franz Boas
11.	Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problem	John H. Bodley
12.	Sindh and the Races that inhabit the Valley of the Indus	Richard Burton
13.	The People of Pakistan	Yu. V. Gankorvsky
14.	Anthropology and Development	Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
15.	An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology	Robert Layton
16.	Anthropological Theory	John R. McGee and Richard L. Warms
17.	Anthropology in Pakistan	Stephen Pastner and Louis Flam
18.	Anthropology (13th edition)	Carol R. Ember, Melvin R Ember and Pet N Peregrine
19.	Other Cultures	John Beattie
20.	A Hand Book of Social Science Research	Bevelry R. Dixon, Gary D Bouma and G.B.J. Atiinson
21.	Frontier Perspectives: Essays in Comparative Anthropology	Clarlies Lindholm
22.	Generosity and Jealousy: The Swat Pukhtun of Northern Pakistan	Clarlies Lindholm
23.	Friend by Day and Enemy by Night: Organized Vengeance in a Kohistani Community	Lincoin Keiser
24.	A Punjabi Village in Pakistan	Zekiye Eglar
25.	The social organization of the Marri Baluch	Robert Niel Pehrson
26.	Introducing Anthropology	Park, MA 2007
27.	Peoples and Cultures of Asia	Scupin, R 2005
28.	Outlines and Highlights for Anthropology	Scupin, R and Decorse, CR 2010
29.	Economic Anthropology	Stuart plattner
30.	Economies and Culture	Richard Wilk
31.	Introduction to Anthropology of Religion	Brian Moris

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Anthropology (7th edition) by William A Haviland

When choosing your topic, you need to do two things. First, choose a group of people somewhere in the world that interests you, and second, discover what aspects of that culture are unusual in their ability to help us understand something about the general human condition.

This practice will surely make your way an easy journey.