Understanding Anthropology's Relationship with Other Disciplines

hello everyone in this anthropology lecture series paper 1

today we will be discussing topic 1.2 that is relationship with other disciplines

let's begin so here to make you comfortable with what we are going to

see in the upcoming slides here i have made some flow charts so basically we'll be studying the

relationship of anthropology in this broader sense that is along with social behavioral science and humanities

along with life sciences medical sciences environmental and earth sciences in

social behavioral and humanities it has been subdivided into history sociology psychology

paul science and economy so with respect to the social behavioral and humanities will be

studying the relationship as in like similarities and differences for the other

uh sciences there will be kind of a relationship that we will try to establish

all right so first of all understanding the relationship of anthropology and history

so as we all know history is concerned with the past right and lecture maybe that anthropology also

deals with the past but it all in addition to past it deals with

the present and the future as well but there is a kind of in similarity that is passed that is how you can say

that anthropology and history are similar in this context right when we talk about the differences

between anthropology and history you can see that history is a pure social science right

but anthropology is a biosocial science that anthropology is a very holistic science that covers

and that goes beyond uh just being a social science it also covers bio culture

and various other aspects right history basically deals with past but anthropology deals with human being of

all times that's the basic uh definition of anthropology right because anthropology uh most of the time

relies upon field work but of course in historical context field work

uh but although they try and gather the data through that

really now coming to the relationship of anthropology and sociology

uh first of all sociology or anthropology there was an american anthropologist e.l

royboy anthropology and sociological defined chatters as a twin sisters

that means this may be other similarities you just cannot distinguish in between two sociology

but yes of course there's a similarity as well here uh in this slide i have mentioned

name of some of the anthropologists as well as sociologist app is a

[Music] would be a good number the uh it doesn't matter

quality casio but anthropology even though the sample size is very small the quality is uh the one that's matter a

lot right sociology uh jessica [Music]

is social problem plus institution whereas anthropology is culture plus community right

now coming to the third part that is anthropology and psychology anthropology

[Music] similarities or differences given so the kurdish people they are known to

be one of the largest state list [Music] political science

than an experts would be a right person to tell us more about the kurdish community or the society

political science political life that he's limited but then anthropology

[Music] [Music] and the now the last among the social

sciences is anthropology and economy anthropology economy can each make body uh interesting

relationship i'll tell you with an example uh suppose in hypothetical scenario there was a person

uh who used to work in a a large mnc and was earning a good fat amount but unfortunately the person lost his

job while he was in a job he used to spend lavishly and

used to have a very big social gatherings and good number of friends but once he lost

the job he stopped um spending lavishly and that is how he has of course they talk about the inflation

only but um anthropologist anthropologist will be in more interested in the barter system and the

earlier exchange method of course methods may be interested

in um so yeah now uh moving to anthropology relation with life sciences

see life sciences [Music] because we have to uh know about the

evolution of human how the human uh evolved from the apes to the

present human being uh australopithecus homo sapiens uh changes so that is how you can establish a

relation so but this is not the case with

anthropology anthropology is uh more focused towards the human being and

apes other than any other animals so that is how you can say that life sciences move beyond a human being

but anthropology is only restricted to human being right so i hope uh it's clear till now

now talking about anthropology and medical science uh see anthropology or medical sciences

again example system uh if you have ever visited uh the homeopathy doctor

uh for some so here you establish the linkages interlinkages

right but we are not very sure that whether it was wuhan that is the ep center or not

but if we take it as an example though we all know that wet market both famous and uh this is

not the first time when we are saying that market say disease outbreak why past maybe i say coffee instances so

here we can definitely establish the linkage that culture produces likelihood of disease

because hygiene conditions that is so bad that can definitely um favor some of the

disease outbreak so this is a very good example and a present one also so i guess uh you see absolutely note

down please do mention while you're writing something related to this

now moving on to the environmental sciences why they were not near the polar region

or uh in the desert area of course because that were not favorable

for the plantation or for the domestication of animals kyuki human civilization can flourish

clearly you need food right so and that is uh available very easily near the

fertile ground or the fertile area and that was provided near the river beds so that is

how you relate environmental now the last topic of uh this section is

anthropology and earth sciences see anthropology earth sciences [Music]

geography geology inside there or joe anthropological branch so that it becomes easier and you can

easily comprehend this in your mind ignore the recent example if you're following the current affairs regularly

you know that pompey a chorizo italy where the scientists have done the

excavation and they have found the street food shops out there

so this is the picture of that street food shop and there you can see the fresco morale

of hen duck and some other animals so this shows that even

the people of the pompey were you know having this kind of an um taste and they were uh having the street

food shops and this is how like the and uh the anthropology

helps in disappearing this excavation it's not just a geologist who will be able to find it out that what was the

culture of that point of time this was the archaeological anthropologist

who will be able to tell you that what is the significance of this frescoes what is the

significance of this bowels and what are the other materials that has been found there

and of course not just the archaeological anthropologists they have to deploy

uh the principles of earth sciences as well like the carbon dating and other things

so this is how you see okay earth sciences could be anthropologists so with this we have completed this uh

uh 1.2 but here are some value addition slides that i have added so the first is to

situate anthropology in social science so this was a question that was being asked in the previous year

upsc mains examination so see this is one of the way that i have presented that how do you situate

anthropology in social science there are two ways either you will write it down

or either you can use the venn diagram like the way i have used and you can present it

in a very clear and um good way it looks good it's presentable it saves your time

so how i have done it i'll just explain you see there i have made a venn diagram and uh

the question says situate anthropology social science that means anthropological social sciences

a natural science both have a very divergent view whereas melanocy he says that

anthropology is not just social and natural science but it is a combination of both to see

how beautifully you have presented the whole idea with just the help of two uh circles

right uh then the second thing is uh we studied about uh the similarities and

differences of various social sciences like history psychology sociology right so uh if you have like uh having

less time in the exam or even if you want to be you know more presentable you can use

this vein diagram there in place of s you can write the similarities

where i have written d you can write the differences so this is the way you can present your

answer in a beautiful way right so these are some of the examples moving ahead will be covering more and

more examples and questions as well so i hope you enjoyed today's lesson

thank you so much