Anthropologyमानवशास्त्र
Studying human society, culture, and diversity in India and beyond
An introduction to social-cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology as practised in and on India, covering caste, kinship, tribe, fieldwork method, and the discipline's own colonial and postcolonial history.
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Fieldwork and Ethnography: Method in Social Anthropology
The method of participant observation, ethnographic writing, and their critique, as developed and contested in Indian anthropology.
5 concepts · 6 sources · 3 exercises
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Caste: Structure, Theory, and Contestation
Major anthropological and sociological theories of caste, from Dumont's structuralism to Ambedkar's materialist critique.
5 concepts · 6 sources · 3 exercises
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Tribe, Adivasi Identity, and the Politics of Classification
Anthropological debates over the category of 'tribe', Scheduled Tribe classification, and Adivasi political identity in India.
5 concepts · 6 sources · 3 exercises
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Kinship, Marriage, and Family in South Asia
Comparative anthropological analysis of North and South Indian kinship systems, marriage rules, and family structure.
5 concepts · 6 sources · 3 exercises
- 05
Schools of Anthropological Theory: Boas to Ortner
A comparative survey of the major theoretical traditions in world anthropology, from Boasian cultural relativism through functionalism, structuralism, and interpretive and practice theory.
6 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
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Kinship, Gift, and Exchange Across World Societies
Comparing anthropological theories of gift exchange, reciprocity, and kinship systems from Mauss's original formulation through Sahlins's economic anthropology.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
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Globalisation, Migration, and Multi-Sited Ethnography
How anthropology has adapted its core method of fieldwork to study transnational migration, diaspora, and globally dispersed cultural flows.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises