UPSC Anthropology Optional Paper 1 2015 PYQ

Section a · Q1(a) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Archaeological Anthropology.

Section b · Q1(b) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

The Nature of Society

Section c · Q1(c) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Marriage

Section d · Q1(d) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Economic Organization

Section e · Q1(e) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Historical particularism (Boas)

Section a · Q2(a) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Biological and Cultural factors in human evolution.

Section b · Q2(b) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Classical evolutionism (Tylor, Morgan and Frazer)

Section c · Q2(c) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Historical particularism (Boas)

Section a · Q3(a) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Family

Section b · Q3(b) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Religion

Section c · Q3(c) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Post-modernism in anthropology.

Section a · Q4(a) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Religion

Section b · Q4(b) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Religion

Section c · Q4(c) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Symbolic and interpretive theories (Turner, Schneider and Geertz)

Section a · Q5(a) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Paleolithic

Section b · Q5(b) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Autosomal aberrations

Section c · Q5(c) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Distinction between technique, method and methodology

Section d · Q5(d) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Relevance of menarche, menopause and other bioevents to fertility. Fertility patterns and differentials.

Section e · Q5(e) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Applications of Anthropology

Section a · Q6(a) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Homo erectus

Section b · Q6(b) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Theories of Organic Evolution (Pre-Darwinian, Darwinian and Post-Darwinian).

Section c · Q6(c) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Numerical and structural aberrations (disorders).

Section a · Q7(a) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Ageing and senescence. Theories and observations

Section b · Q7(b) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Concepts and methods of Ecological Anthropology: Bio-cultural Adaptations

Section c · Q7(c) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Applications of Anthropology

Section a · Q8(a) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Applications of Anthropology

Section b · Q8(b) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Concept of genetic polymorphism and selection, Mendelian population, Hardy-Weinberg law

Section c · Q8(c) · UPSC 2015 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Mendelian genetics in man-family study, single factor, multifactor, lethal, sub-lethal and polygenic inheritance in man.