UGC NET Anthropology — Paper 2, subject code 07

All ten units are written, in 27 chapters: three for each unit, except two each for Unit I, the discipline and its research methods (the discipline and research design; fieldwork, methods and statistics), Unit IV, growth, adaptation and demography (growth; adaptation, somatotyping and demography), and Unit X, anthropology in practice (the seventeen fields; development and community work). The syllabus numbers its ten units and titles only two of them: Unit VIII opens with the heading "Theories in Social Anthropology" and Unit IX with "Stages in the Development of Indian Anthropology"; the other eight carry no heading, and Unit VII's opening phrase "Conceptual Understanding of Social Anthropology:" introduces its first block rather than naming the unit. So, as for History, the outline and the Paper-II mock describe every unit by what it covers. The quantitative content is worked with checked answers: the cephalic and other indices; Dankmeijer's, Furuhata's and the pattern intensity indices; Hardy–Weinberg carrier frequencies and the inbreeding coefficient of a first-cousin marriage; BMI and Siri's body-fat equation; Crow's index of selection intensity and an infant mortality rate; Holzinger's twin heritability index; the radiocarbon and potassium-argon ages; and a variance and a chi-square test. The science and the law are taught as they now stand: Ardipithecus ramidus with its naming history, the robust australopithecines as Paranthropus and Ramapithecus within Sivapithecus; Neanderthal and Denisovan admixture as the genomes show it; typological race and the Risley and Guha classifications as the history of the discipline, not as biology; the Rakhigarhi genome of 2019 for what it found; 75 PVTGs, the Fifth and Sixth Schedules, PESA, the Forest Rights Act 2006, the 2013 land acquisition law and PM-JANMAN (2023); the 2011 Census for population figures; and the 2014, 2018 and 2023 Supreme Court judgments and the 2019 Act on the rights of transgender and LGBT persons. Caste, tribe, race, gender and sexuality are written about in the terms communities use for themselves and in the terms of the Constitution. The document's slips are quoted and taught correctly: "Fraser" (Frazer), "Zora Neale Hutson" (Hurston), "Weiser" (William H. Wiser), "Iravati" (Irawati, both transliterations being met), "Telengana" (Telangana), "Parnoll" and "Health-Carter" (Parnell, Heath–Carter), "Paranthropous" (Paranthropus), "Mitrochondrial", "polymorphisim" and "quarternary", "Solutrian", "Tardenoisean" and "Maglamosean" (Solutrean, Tardenoisian, Maglemosian), "Attirmpakkam" and "Kortalayar" (Attirampakkam, Kortallayar), "Sarutadu" (Sarutaru), "topical" (topikal), "Particularly Vulnerable Groups" (Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups), and Bagor, listed twice among the Mesolithic sites; "Tarsiioidea", "polygeneic", "Clactonean", "Nagada", "Sangankallu" and "Tekkalkota" are simply spelt correctly (Tarsioidea, polygenic, Clactonian, Nagda, Sanganakallu, Tekkalakota). "Amitalocal" is a genuine term and is taught as one. The ethnicity line's "Jeffery" has no first name and cannot be matched with confidence to one theory, so the chapter teaches Barth and Weber and attributes nothing to it; Renato Rosaldo is taught alongside Michelle Rosaldo, whose work the gender line also draws on. The overlap with material already on this platform was scoped precisely. Units VII to IX touch NET Sociology's theory, institutions, kinship, stratification, agrarian and movements chapters; here the schools, the village monographs and the Indian concepts are read as anthropology reads them, through fieldwork. Units II and III touch the evolution and genetics of the platform's biology chapters; here they are taught as physical anthropology, with the fossil record, human variation and dermatoglyphics. Unit VI touches NET History's prehistory and Harappan chapters, taught here from the archaeology of sites and cultures. Units IV and X touch NET Physical Education's and Home Science's anthropometry, ergonomics, nutrition and community development, NET Economics' and Geography's demography, NET Social Work's community and development chapters and NET Public Administration's local government and social justice. Unit I touches the research chapters of Paper-1 and many subjects. Each was opened and written independently; nothing is adapted or reworded.