UPSC Mains ANTHROPOLOGY-PAPER-II 2012

Sacred Geography

Youth Dormitory

Narmada Man

Participatory Rural Appraisal

Palaeolithic Art

Trace the trajectory of encyclopaedic works on tribes and castes of South India with special reference to Ananthakrishna Iyer's contribution.

Discuss the concept of 'indigenous people' as per the relevant UN convention. Are tribals of India indigenous people? Comment.

Critically examine the relationship between tribal communities and the Nation-State on issues of governance.

Examine the relevance of Tribal Panchsheel by Jawaharlal Nehru in the light of emerging development practices.

Using ethnographic examples, highlight the processes of religious conversions in Tribal India.

Using suitable examples, bring out the historical processes of the social exclusion of denotified tribes.

Compare the contributions of S.C. Roy and Verrier Elwin to tribal ethnographies in India.

Using ethnographic examples, point out how gender relations have changed over time among Central Indian tribes.

How has globalisation impacted agrarian relations in the last two decades?

Colonial Ethnography

Commodification of Tribal Art

Soan culture

Ethical issues in Genetic Research

Indigenous knowledge

Critically examine the prevalence of caste ideology among religious minorities in the Indian context.

Discuss the linkages between language, territoriality and kinship among the tribes of North-East India.

Critically examine the National Policy on Rehabilitation and Resettlement substantiating it with experiences from different parts of India.

Compare the salient features and distribution of the Middle Palaeolithic and Upper Palaeolithic cultures in India. Add a note on the tool traditions of the Upper Palaeolithic period.

Critically examine the 'book view' and the 'field view' of social reality.

Using examples, comment on how anthropology can be utilised in policy making.

Gender and Customary Law

Gender and Caste