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Definition
Hence, Anthropology literally means “Study of Human Beings.”
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Example / case study
Herbert Risley: Racial theory of caste; The People of India. Thurston: Castes & Tribes of Southern India. Beginning: Institutionalisation of anthropology (Dept. of Anthropology, Calcutta University – 1920). Nature: Empirical fieldwork, study of social institutions.
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Thinkers
E.A. Hoebel: “Anthropology is the study of man and his works.”
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Definition
Word “Casta” → Portuguese → means race/lineage.
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Example / case study
over-consumption of resources → karma teaches restraint.
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Definition
Hence, Anthropology literally means “Study of Human Beings.”
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Example / case study
Herbert Risley: Racial theory of caste; The People of India. Thurston: Castes & Tribes of Southern India. Beginning: Institutionalisation of anthropology (Dept. of Anthropology, Calcutta University – 1920). Nature: Empirical fieldwork, study of social institutions.
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Thinkers
E.A. Hoebel: “Anthropology is the study of man and his works.”
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Definition
It examines humans as biological organisms.
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Thinkers
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. India: S.C. Roy documented Oraon genealogies; Irawati Karve used genealogical mapping to study village kinship and exogamy in Maharashtra. Cultural Materialism: Marvin Harris argued that the primary driver of culture is the material constraints of existence, organized into a hierarchy of Infrastructure, Structure, and Superstructure.
Short notes for this Anthropology syllabus heading.