UPSC Anthropology Optional Paper 1 2016 PYQ

Section a · Q1(a) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

The Nature of Society

Section b · Q1(b) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

The Nature of Culture

Section c · Q1(c) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Kinship

Section d · Q1(d) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Religion

Section e · Q1(e) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Functionalism (Malinowski)

Section a · Q2(a) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Chalcolithic

Section b · Q2(b) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Family

Section c · Q2(c) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Symbolic and interpretive theories (Turner, Schneider and Geertz)

Section a · Q3(a) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Kinship

Section b · Q3(b) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Political Organization and Social Control

Section c · Q3(c) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Religion

Section a · Q4(a) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Economic Organization

Section b · Q4(b) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Structuralism (Lévi-Strauss and E. Leach)

Section c · Q4(c) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Fieldwork tradition in anthropology

Section a · Q5(a) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Age, sex and population variation as genetic marker

Section b · Q5(b) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Rhodesian man.

Section c · Q5(c) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Neolithic

Section d · Q5(d) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Biological and socio-ecological factors influencing fecundity, fertility, natality and mortality.

Section e · Q5(e) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 10 marks · Solution

Applications of Anthropology

Section a · Q6(a) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Biological and Cultural factors in human evolution.

Section b · Q6(b) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Race and racism, biological basis of morphological variation of non-metric and metric characters. Racial criteria, racial traits in relation to heredity and…

Section c · Q6(c) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Factors affecting growth and development

Section a · Q7(a) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Human Genetics

Section b · Q7(b) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Numerical and structural aberrations (disorders).

Section c · Q7(c) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Epidemiological Anthropology

Section a · Q8(a) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 20 marks · Solution

Applications of Anthropology

Section b · Q8(b) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Concepts and methods of Ecological Anthropology: Bio-cultural Adaptations

Section c · Q8(c) · UPSC 2016 · Anthropology GS 1 · 15 marks · Solution

Characteristics of Primates