Exam Details
| Subject | Social Anthropology | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | Masters In Anthropology (Maan) | |
| Department | School of Social Sciences (SOSS) | |
| Organization | indira gandhi national open university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | June, 2016 | |
| City, State | new delhi, |
Question Paper
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IMAN-OOlI
MASTERS IN ANTHROPOLOGY (MAAN)
Term-End Examination
N
o June, 2016
o MAN-DOl: SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Time .3 hours Maximum Marks 100
Note: Attempt five questions.
Attempt atleast two questions from each section.
All questions carry equal marks.
The word limit for the answer of20 marks questions
is 500 words each ami for 10 marks questions is
250 words.
SECTION
1. Outline the scope of social anthropology. Discuss the relationship of social anthropology with history. 10+10
2. "Culture is the man made part of the environment." Examine the statement with examples. Discuss the attributes of culture as they are given in this definition. 10+10
3. Discuss and compare A.R. Radcliffe -Brown's and Rodney Needham's contribution to the study of social structure. 10+10
4. State the salient features of the culture and personality school. Evaluate Ruth Benedict's contribution to it. 10+10
5. Write short notes on any two of the following:
Historical Particularism 10+10
Westernisation and Modernisation
Community and Association
Ethnocentrism and Cultural relativism
SECTION
6. What is the genealogical method? Trace your genealogy upto your maternal grandparents using the method. Describe the changing trends in family due to urbanization and modernity. 10+10
7. Discuss the following approaches to the study of religion. Evolutionary and Marxist. 10+10
8. Discuss Potlach as a mode of redistribution with suitable examples.
9. Write short notes on any two of the following in 250 words each: 10+10
Shifting cultivation
Preferential Rules of Marriages
Religious specialists
Redistribution
IMAN-OOlI
MASTERS IN ANTHROPOLOGY (MAAN)
Term-End Examination
N
o June, 2016
o MAN-DOl: SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Time .3 hours Maximum Marks 100
Note: Attempt five questions.
Attempt atleast two questions from each section.
All questions carry equal marks.
The word limit for the answer of20 marks questions
is 500 words each ami for 10 marks questions is
250 words.
SECTION
1. Outline the scope of social anthropology. Discuss the relationship of social anthropology with history. 10+10
2. "Culture is the man made part of the environment." Examine the statement with examples. Discuss the attributes of culture as they are given in this definition. 10+10
3. Discuss and compare A.R. Radcliffe -Brown's and Rodney Needham's contribution to the study of social structure. 10+10
4. State the salient features of the culture and personality school. Evaluate Ruth Benedict's contribution to it. 10+10
5. Write short notes on any two of the following:
Historical Particularism 10+10
Westernisation and Modernisation
Community and Association
Ethnocentrism and Cultural relativism
SECTION
6. What is the genealogical method? Trace your genealogy upto your maternal grandparents using the method. Describe the changing trends in family due to urbanization and modernity. 10+10
7. Discuss the following approaches to the study of religion. Evolutionary and Marxist. 10+10
8. Discuss Potlach as a mode of redistribution with suitable examples.
9. Write short notes on any two of the following in 250 words each: 10+10
Shifting cultivation
Preferential Rules of Marriages
Religious specialists
Redistribution
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