Are you planning to appear in civil service examination? And confused

about deciding the optional paper and loosing precious time?

Well I, on the basis of 29 years of experience in guiding students,

recommend that you should select anthropology. You may accuse me of

advoca...

Firstly, get familiar with the basics of each topic

Secondly develop inter-relationship among topics :-

The key to scoring high marks not only in anthropology but in other papers in civil services

lies in the development of inter-relationship among the topics and creative

...

In answering UPSC questions, a student has to adopt an approach different

from academics[B.A,M.A] in which nature of answers are usually long. In

UPSC where question requires limited words, answers should be precise,

lucid, and logical .so unnecessary details and theoreti...

Anthropology and Ethics are closely related in the sense that the central concern of anthropology is culture and ethics is also rooted in the culture of the society.

The study of ethics is concerned with the moral principles or values that determine what is right or wha...

Since anthropology deals with simple societies, so preparation for

anthropology is easy, scoring and less time consuming .Theoretically,

anthropology is the comparative study of all societies – tribal, peasant and

modern but practically, anthropological preference is the...

I give you some illustration of questions asked in previous years in

anthropology in civil services examination that also reflect the scope of

limitation of questions in anthropology.

                      The question relating to law and justice has been very...

Holistic Perspective

Every discipline has a typical approach to a social phenomenon. Economics

studies anything in term of profit and loss, production and distribution and

demand and supply. History attempts to study anything in historical context

Likewise these discipline...

Scope: - The scope of anthropology has changed over the years, from the

science of man to the science in the service of man.

As a science of man, anthropology studies man holistically- from

biological, social, cultural economic and political point of view. physical

anthrop...

The method of anthropological study is the comparative method by which

anthropology aims to know whether all societies are alike or each one is

unique. Anthropology studies social, cultural, economic, political and

biological aspect of man with comparative approach. At so...

Social Sciences: - Anthropology studies social, economic and political

aspects of man, which is why anthropology is related to sociology,

economics and political science.

Anthropology’s relationship with sociology is very close. Both the

disciplines study social aspect of...