Self Study for Anthropology

Anthropology I

I.6 Difference between Cultural Evolution and Cultural Diffusion.

Self Study for UPSC Posted on November 9, 2021November 9, 2021

Cultural evolution Cultural diffusion Definition : It is a process of social and cultural change in a definite direction from simple to complex, homogeneity to heterogeneity. Definition : It is a process where cultural elements, complexes and aspects pass from one group to another. Nature : Cultural Evolution is more complicated in nature as compared […]

Anthropology I

I.9.5 Race crossing in man

Self Study for UPSC Posted on November 9, 2021

Definition : Race crossing is interbreeding between two different human races. Different human races separated geographically have acquired race specific traits which were stylized through natural selection. Interbreeding/ crossing between races would result in admixture of these traits. Examples : Arabic and Semitic traders have penetrated through Africa. Asiatic traders have passed on and into […]

I.9.5 Racial traits in relation to heredity and environment

Self Study for UPSC Posted on July 10, 2021

An anthropologist utilizes various hereditary and environmental factors for racial classification. There is different views on relative influence of heredity or inherited traits and those external agents ie the environment or surroundings on racial traits. In multiracial societies racial groups differ greatly in regard to social and cultural factors such as socioeconomic status, healthcare, diet, […]

Anthropology II

II.1.1 Harappan culture

Self Study for UPSC Posted on June 14, 2021June 19, 2021

Historian V. Gordon Childe wrote that: “India confronts Egypt and Babylonia by the 3rd millennium with a thoroughly individual and independent civilization of her own, technically the peer of the rest. And plainly it is deeply rooted in Indian soil. The Indus civilization represents a very perfect adjustment of human life to a specific environment. […]

Anthropology II

II.1.1 Post- Harappan culture

Self Study for UPSC Posted on June 6, 2021

In post harappan period, urban society broke down. The decline probably occurred in several stages, over a century or more; from the period between about 2000 and 1750 BCE. The collapse involved the end of system of social and political control that had preceded it. After that date the cities and many of their distinctively […]