Anthropology For Civil Services

Primitive Religion

1. Animism
2. Animatism
3. Fetishism
4. Naturism
5. Totemism

 Schools of Anthropological Thought

1. Classical Evolutionism
2. Diffusionism
3. Historical Particularism
4. Functionalism
5. Structural Functionalism
6. Structuralism
7. Culture and Personality School
8. Neo-Evolutionism
9. Cultural Materialism
10. Symbolic and Interpretive Theories
11. Cognitive Theories
12. Post-Modernism

Pioneers of different schools of anthropological thought

1.  Classical Evolutionism
1. British School - E.B. Tylor
2. German School - Bachofein, Bastein
3. American School - 
2. Diffusionism
1. British School
2. German School
3. American School
3. Historical Particularism - Franz Boas
4. Functionalism - Malinowsi
5. Structural Functionalism - 
6. Structuralism - 
7. Culture and Personality School - Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ralph Linton, Abraham Kardiner, Cora-du-Bois.
8. Neo-Evolutionism
9. Cultural Materialism
10. Symbolic and Interpretive Theories
11. Cognitive Theories
12. Post-Modernism - Geertz

Margaret Mead

1. Student of Franz Boas & Ruth Benedict
2. Also inspired by Edward Saphir
3. Used Psychoanalysis
4. Coming of age in Samoa (1928)
5. Growing up in New Guinea (1930)
6. Sex & Temperment in three primitive societies (1935)
7. Cooperation & Competition in primitive people (1939)
8. And Keep your powder dry (1942)
9. Male & Female (1949)
10. Culture influences Personality

Stone Age in India

Prominent Indian Anthropologists

1. G.S. Gurye
2. J.N. Bhattacharya
3. Leela Dube
4. S.C. Dube
5. Verrier Elwin
6. B.S. Guha
7. Irawati Karve
8. M.N. Srinivas
9. L.P. Vidyarthi
10. H.D. Sankalia

Kinship and Gender in India