May 8, 2020 – Self Study for Anthropology

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I.12 Applied anthropology

Self Study for UPSC Posted on May 8, 2020

Applied anthropology came into existence during the colonial period to assist the administrators in finding solutions to practical problems. In the beginning, applied anthropology was involved in the application of knowledge by those who were responsible for administration of colonies. Anthropologists prepared ethnographic accounts describing the customs and practices of people, and served as advisers. […]

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I.12. Methods and principles of personal identification and reconstruction

Self Study for UPSC Posted on May 8, 2020May 15, 2021

Personal identifcation is defned as establishing the identity of an individual. The need for personal identifcation arises in natural mass disasters like earth quakes, tsunamis, landslides, floods etc., and in man-made disasters such as terrorist attacks, bomb blasts, mass murders, and in cases when the body is highly decomposed or dismembered to deliberately conceal the […]

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I.B Human geography

Self Study for UPSC Posted on May 8, 2020May 10, 2020

Human geography is study of people and places. The field of human geography focuses on places, organization of space and society by human, interaction with each other in places and across space, and to make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and the world. Human geography is the study of the spatial […]