Anthro 2019 mains discussion

Guys ready for todays discussion?

Q. Why you have chosen Anthropology as optional after xyz degree from xyz subject. Debate only with 2 3 statement.

@sat_009I in particular don't have my graduation subject as Optional. Could go by that and add Anthro provided a unique opportunity to study humans in an objective way. Moreover, materials available and good results in recent past. Culmination of multiple favourable factors made me pursue Anthro.

what did you write in " how did Radcliffe Brown and Levi Strauss study kinship in terms of social structure?

Radcliffe's Brown being a structural functionalists speaks about kinship as a social structure and being the social reality. He suggested to study kinship as an institution to understand relation and how it guides behavior in the society. It is to say kinship works as a unit to control social relations through behavior. Ex - Joking relationship,etc.

Levi Strauss do not consider social institution as social reality. He merely sees them as social construct and focusses on the relationship between each element. He propounded the Alliance Theory, where he suggest kinship is nothing but an exchange of wives in a recurrent marriage order. Further in his Elementary Structure of Kinship he gave a detailed explanation of how it works. In it he talks about the open and closed system of alliance making.

@BrickI simply explained structuralism and structural functionalism. Didn't write descent and alliance theory. Main toh yeh Soch bhi nhi paya that. L**re lag gye

yeh thread padke toh sab naya sa lagta hai

Anyone preparing for 2020 Anthropology willing to partner?

From where to read difficult topics of Anthropology theories like Levi Strauss' theory? It's difficult to understand from Braintree material, Ember and Ember.

@AureliusMyou can refer makhan jha or venkat mohan for anthropological theories. Selective reading only as book discuss lots more which is unnecessary.

Guys, who cleared mains pls share ur approach?
i'm out with anthro. 4th attempt and 3rd mains

Cleared with anthro.. first mains

How's the performance of Anthro this year?

@Phagocytebhai aapka anthro tha na?

@Kabirout