Short notes
Serogenetics and cytogenetics in reproductive biology.
Definition
Medical Genetics: It is the standard method for understanding the inheritance patterns of Mendelian disorders such as Huntington’s disease, Sickle-cell anemia, and Thalassemia.
Example / case study
- Information is reconstructed almost entirely through archaeological evidence.
- Together they explain humans from biological, cultural, linguistic and historical perspectives.
- Anthropology today extends far beyond the study of tribes.
Thinkers
- E.A. Hoebel: “Anthropology is the study of man and his works.”
- Franz Boas — historical particularism and the four-field approach (biological, archaeological, linguistic, cultural).
- Radcliffe-Brown: Used genealogies to reconstruct descent groups and social structure in Africa.
- Malinowski: Used them to understand kinship and land inheritance among the Trobriand Islanders.
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: Used genealogical/kinship data to develop Alliance Theory, focusing on marriage and exchange between lineages.