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Unit 1: Physical Anthropology

• Introduction To Physical Anthropology And Human Genetics
• Introduction to Anthropology
• Introduction to Physical Anthropology and its Sub Branches
• Mendel’s Laws of Heredity Part 1
• Mendel’s Laws of Heredity Part 2
• Monohybrid and Dihybrid Ratio Part 1
• Monohybrid and Dihybrid Ratio Part 2
• Understanding Race: Concepts, Criteria, and Classification
• Physical Features & Classification of Major Racial Groups

Unit 2: Prehistoric Archaeology

• Introduction to Archaeological Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology
• Tools Making Techniques Presentation
• Tools Families: Types and Function Part 1
• Tools Families: Types and Function Part 2
• Prehistoric Cultures (Paleolithic Vs. Neolithic) Part 1
• Prehistoric Cultures (Paleolithic Vs. Neolithic) Part 2
• Prehistoric Cultures (Neolithic)

Unit 3: Social Anthropology and Ethnography

• Land and People of Northeast India Part 1
• Land and People of Northeast India Part 2
• Material Culture and Economic Life Part 1
• Material Culture and Economic Life Part 2
• Social Anthropology and Ethnography
• Shifting or JHU Cultivation
• Mising Plough Cultivation
• AO Social Organization
• Apatani Social Organization
• Family
• Functions of Family

Unit 4: Social Anthropology and Ethnography

• Introduction to Social and Cultural
• Family Definition, Social Nature, Types and Function
• Marriage Definition, Types, Function and Variation Part 1
• Marriage Definition, Types, Function and Variation Part 2
• Kinship Origin, Role, and Changes Part 1
• Kinship Origin, Role, and Changes Part 2
• Kinship Origin, Role, and Changes Part 3
• Marriage Definition, Types, Function and Variation Part II
• Assam & Mising Part 1
• Assam & Mising Part 2
• Assam & Mising Part 3
• Meghalaya & Garo Part 1
• Meghalaya & Garo Part 2
• Nagaland & AO Naga Part 1
• Nagaland & AO Naga Part 2
• Nagaland & AO Naga Part 3
• Arunachal Pradesh & Apatani Tribe Part 1
• Arunachal Pradesh & Apatani Tribe Part 2
• Manipur & Zou Tribe Part 1
• Manipur & Zou Tribe Part 2
• Manipur & Zou Tribe Part 3
• Mizoram & Lai Tribe Part 1
• Mizoram & Lai Tribe Part 2
• Mizoram & Lai Tribe Part 3
• Tripura & Riang Part 1
• Tripura & Riang Part 2
• Tripura & Riang Part 3

Unit 5: Ecology

• Introduction to Ecology and Anthropology
• Components of the Environment
• Reconstruction of Past Environment
• Human Adaptation to Prehistoric Environments Presentation Part 1
• Human Adaptation to Prehistoric Environments Presentation Part 2
• Ecological Anthropology Presentation Part 1
• Ecological Anthropology Presentation Part 2
• Human Impact On Environment & Man As The Main Agent Of Ecological Disturbance Part 1
• Human Impact On Environment & Man As The Main Agent Of Ecological Disturbance Part 2
• Applied Ecological Anthropology Part 1
• Applied Ecological Anthropology Part 2

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• Unit-1: Physical Anthropology

  • (i) Preliminary knowledge of Human genetics. Mendel’s Laws of heredity, Monohybrid and Dihybrid ratio
  • (ii) Definition of Race and Racial criteria, Significance of skin colour, Eye form and colour, Head form, and ABO blood groups as racial criteria
  • (iii) Racial classification, Distinctive physical features and geographical distribution of the major racial groups of man: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, Australoid

• Unit-2: Prehistoric Archaeology

  • (i) Tool Making: Techniques of manufacturing core and flake tools, Primary and secondary flaking, pressure flaking, grinding and polishing, Materials used in making prehistoric tools
  • (ii) Tool families: Pebble tools, Handaxe, Cleaver, Scrapers, Microliths, Points, Blades, Awl, Graver, Celts, Sickles, Spear-head, Arrow-head, and Bone tools
  • (iii) Prehistoric Cultures: A brief outline of the following prehistoric cultures of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods-
  • (iv) A comparative study of the salient features of Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures

• Unit-3: Material Culture and Economic Anthropology

  • (i) Economic life Meaning and aspects, characteristic features of primitive or simple economic sys-tems.
  • (ii) Subsistence economy: Domestication of animals-pastoralism, Agriculture-shifting cultivation, horti-culture, terrace cultivation, plough cultivation.
  • (iii) Brief outline of the methods of hunting, fishing, and agriculture with reference to various communities of North East India as far as practicable.

• Unit-4: Social Anthropology and Ethnography

• A: Social Anthropology:

  • (i) Family: Definition, forms, and types: nuclear family, joint family, family of orientation, family of procreation, monogamous and polygamous (polygynous and polyandrous)
  • (ii) Clustered relationship in a nuclear family.
  • (iii) Rules of residence: Patrilocal, matrilocal, neolocal, avancolocal, bi-local, matripatriloca, Rules of descent: Patrilineal and matrilineal descent
  • (iv) Functions of family, social nature of family.

• B: Ethnography:

  • (i) A brief outline of the land and people of North-East India.
  • (ii) Study of material culture and economic life of the following communities
  • (iii) The Garo: Shifting or Jhum cultivation.
  • (iv) The Mishing: Plough cultivation
  • (v) A study of social organization of the Ao Naga and the Apatani.

• Unit-5: Ecology

  • (i) Meaning and definition of ecology and environment.
  • (ii) Elements of the environment: Solid, liquid, and gas.
  • (iii) Physical or abiotic environment, biological or biotic environment, and sociocultural environment.
  • (iv) Man as the main agent to disturb the ecological balance.