Kerala Plus Two Anthropology (DHSE) case studies
Kerala Plus Two Anthropology (DHSE) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Anthropology is a two-year higher secondary elective offered by the Directorate of Higher Secondary Education (DHSE), Kerala, typically taken alongside other Plus Two subjects. It suits students drawn to human origins, culture and society who want a humanities or social science pathway into university, and it serves as an early foundation for degrees in anthropology, sociology, history, archaeology or social work. The Kerala Plus Two Anthropology (DHSE) case studies are 5 cases and about 2,731 words.
1Who Does What in a Child Nutrition Baseline?
The Tribal Development Office in a Wayanad panchayat has six weeks and a budget of ₹1.2 lakh to produce a baseline on undernutrition among children aged 6–59 months in three hamlets. The team includes one social anthropologist, one biological anthropologist, one archaeologist, two untrained interns and one vehicle.
628 words, about 3 min2Three Unlabelled Hominin Casts
A college museum in Kottayam has three unlabelled hominin casts donated without paperwork. Cast A has a cranial capacity of about 1,450 cc, a true chin and small brow ridges, and a box of long parallel-sided blades and burins said to come from the same layer.
554 words, about 3 min3A Rescue Centre's Plan to Mix Two Macaque Species
A rescue centre near Thrissur holds eight bonnet macaques (one adult male, four adult females, two juveniles and one infant) and three lion-tailed macaques (one adult male and two adult females). The centre has lost a grant and proposes to combine all eleven animals in one 6 m × 4 m outdoor cage with a single feeding platform to save staff time.
543 words, about 3 min4Is This Community Matrilineal?
A student surveys 45 households in a hill village near Palakkad for a school project. She records 62 marriages across three generations.
510 words, about 3 min5Consent, Payment and a Healer's Veto
A Class XII student wins a small grant to study ritual healing among a tribal community in Idukki for four weeks. A local healer agrees to be interviewed but asks for ₹3,000, copies of all recordings, and the right to remove any passage he dislikes before submission.
496 words, about 2 min