Anthropology is related to which domain, biology or physics? Is anthropology a tough optional for UPSC exam?

Sir,

anthropology is related to which domain? bilogy or physics?
is it tough as option for civils?

Deepak Chaturvedi

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Dear for your kind information that there is no exact or particular information for Anthropology but basically we can say that this is the study of Human Beings, it is related to historical part of the life of human beings and covers all parts of the human life as - Environmental Relation and Characters, Physical Characters and Relations, Social Relation and Culture.

So this covers all type of fields - Social, Biological, Archaeological and Linguistic and some of the major part of this subject that will definitely remove your all doubts related to this subject and you will know the actual data about Anthropology that what is contains exactly so please read all the following listed topics and know that how many subjects are there included in this subject and asked compulsorily under Anthropology

* Meaning Scope and Development of Anthropology
* Relations with other disciplines - Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Medical Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Humanities
* Main Branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance - mentioned above
* Human Evolution and Emergence of Man
* Characteristics of Primates
* Phylogenetic Status, characteristics and geographical distribution
* The Biological Basic of Life : The Cell, DNA structure and replication, Protein Synthesis, Gene, Mutation, Chromosomes and Cell Devision
* Principles of Prehistoric Archaeology : Chronology : Relative and Absolute Dating Methods
* Cultural Evolution : Broad Outlines of Prehistoric cultures
* The Nature of Culture
* The Nature of Society
* Marriage, Family, Kinship etc.
* Economic Organization
* Political Organization and Social Control
* Religion
* Anthropological Theories
* Culture, Language and Communication
* Research Methods in Anthropology
* Human Genetics - Mendelian Genetics, Concept of Genetic Polymorphism and selection
* Chromosomes and Chromosomal aberrations in man - methodology
* Race and Racism
* Age, Sex and Population variation as genetic marker
* Concepts and Method of Ecological Anthropology
* Epidemiological Anthropology
* Concept of human growth and development
* Applications of Anthropology

* Evolution of Indian Culture and Civilization
* Palaeo
* Ethno-archaeology in India
* Demographic Profile in India
* The Structure and Nature of Traditional Indian Social System
* Caste System in India
* Sacred Complex and Nature
* Impact of Buddhism, Jainism, Islam and Christianity in Indian Society
* Emergence and Growth of Anthropology in India
* Indian Village
* Indigenous and Exogenous processes of socio-cultural change in Indian Society
* Tribal Situation in India including all related issues - changes in tribal situation, rehabilitation, caste etc.
* Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development
* Contributions of Anthropology to the understanding of regionalism, communalism and ethnic and political movements.

Now everything is in front of your view so you can see that all biological, history, science related issues are covered but physics is not included so finally you may judge over this subject and may prepare

If you are going to choose this subject for both optional paper I and II then you can easily choose but if you have not completed or read this subject ever before then this will definitely take a long time to understand because this is not so easy as you think because biological and archaeological science is really critical at many parts of their syllabus so think well before selecting this subject and if you trust in yourself and ready to give enough time to prepare for this subject so there is no problem in opting this subject for optional papers

All the best