Course Details
Course Title Anthropology
Course ID HUM 713
Course Program Undergraduate, B.Arch,
Course Type Optional Theory
Credits 2.00
Credits Hours 2 Hrs/WK
Semester Block A
Prerequisite None
Course Offered No
Description Meaning and definition of Anthropology; Methods of studying Anthropology; Perspectives of Anthropology. Biological Anthropology: Theory of evolution, adaptation. Archaeological Anthropology: Invention of agriculture, origin and development of cities and civilization; Cultural Anthropology: Dominant culture and sub culture; cultural relativism and ethnic diversity; Family and kinship: forms and functions; Social inequality. Economic system and anthropology: pattern of labour, control of land, technology, Distribution of exchange; Reciprocity, redistribution, distribution of wealth. Politics and political organization: Formal and informal political organization, nature, types and functions. Theories of the origin of State.