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Venkata Mohan delivered these lectures at Feynman IAS during November 2020 - March 2021 for Anthropology students.

0:00 How did Morgan explain the evolution of marriage and family? Evaluate. ( Anthro, 2015)
4:46 mention the author's book, year written, quotes and contemporary examples.
5:20 Did private property influence the nature of marriage?
7:00 Evaluate a thinker in terms of more recent evidence - for example, marriage was there before human evolution!
8:00 How do diffusionism and evolutionism differ as explanations of cultural change? ( Anthro, 2015)
9:30 How did caste spread according to Ghurye?
10:00 If people migrate and spread their culture, is it diffusionism?
10:20 Is not Westernization a case of diffusionism? How are religions spreading?
11:20 In anthro, there 3 schools of diffusion. They are giving historical accounts.
13:50 The British school said all came from Egypt.
16:00 Psychic unity of man assumes cultural traits everywhere evolve in the same way.
17:00 Man is uninventive - as per Diffusionists.
17:30 Westernization evolved elsewhere and diffused to other places. So complementarity.
18:30 Schmidt gave 4 culture circles - primitive, primary, secondary and tertiary. Not all from Egypt.
20:50 In Morgan's evolution takes place in one place, Schmidt's scheme is evolutionism plus diffusionism.
22:30 Diffusion as an explanation of cultural change is undisputable, historical steps are contested.
23:00 American school followed culture area approach.
24:00 Can you take a state as a culture area in India? If not a state, any other territorial unit?
25:00 Why are some traits adopted and some not?
27:00 If you take mate selection as a trait, there is a geographical variation - as per Irawati Karve.
28:00 Why are Punjab farmers fighting farm policies and not from AP? The agricultural system is a cultural aspect.
30:00 A distinct political boundary may be cultural boundary too.
32:00 Malinowski's approach is called functionalism; Radcliffe Brown's structural functionalism.
32:30 As opposed to the conflict model of Marx.
33:00 Each unit of society doing a function to the society - is functionalism. And units are interrelated. Dumont's thinking is functionalist. Durkheim influenced functionalist thinking.
35:00 Durkheim, Marx, and Weber impacted Anthropological thought.
36:00 In what ways is functionalism different from structural functionalism? ( Anthro, 2013)
36:30 Malonowski - how a cultural trait serves human needs; how it contributes to social structure - is Radcliffe Brown's.
40:50 What is a social structure according to Radcliffe Brown (RB)?
43:00 Why is MN Srinivas called a structural functionalist?
46:00 There are bands in a desert. Is desert part of RB's social structure?
47:00 Marvin Harris had the courage to evaluate others' theories. Most others did not have this.
47:30 To RB, bands constitute a social structure, desert is not. the economy is not; even their beliefs are not.
50:00 'Base' in Marx's materialism can be divided into (1) techno-economy and (2) class/ group relations. (3) Beliefs come under superstructure. In RB's social structure only (2) there.
52:00 Harris evaluates others' theories from his school of cultural materialism.
53:00 Is the caste system part of RB's social structure? How about agriculture?
55:00 RB uses the term 'social system' to include (1), (2) and (3).
59:00 According to Elvin Hatch, Malinowski explained in his ethnography how cultural traits are interlinked and how they contribute to the total, though his theory is only on human needs.
1:02:00 Ecology is a part of techno-economy.
1:06:00 Basic tenets of structural functionalism ( Anthro, 2017)
1:12:30 If you think if something is there, there must be a reason - then it is functionalism.
1:13:30 A cartoon that I wanted but is not there in Sociological Thought: God to Parsons, " Thank you, at least you understood me."