Exam Details
| Subject | Comparative Ethnography | |
| 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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IMANE-0031
MASTERS IN ANTHROPOLOGY (MAAN)
Term-End Examination
o June, 2016
o
MANE-003: COMPARATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY
Time 3 hours Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. The word limit for the answers of 20 marks questions is 500 words each and for 10 marks questions is 250 words. Attempt at least two questions from each section.
SECfION
1. Trace the history of ethnography as a tool of social science research. Delineate the new trends observed in enthnography today.
2. Discuss how Bronislaw Malinowski initiated the ethnographic approach.
3. Examine Kinship values among the Americans as understood from the ethnographic text, American Kinship: A Cultural Account.
4. Discuss the main content of Andre Beteille's Caste, Class and Power: Changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore Village.
5. Attempt any two of the following:
Writing an ethnography
The symbolists Craude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz and Victor Turner
The family among rural Kashmiri Pandits.
"Death as a living" as portrayed in Death in Banaras
SECTION
6. Deliberate on Michael Fischer's analysis of religious movement in the text, Iran from Religious Dispute to Revolution.
7. Critically discuss the main areas of contention between Bronislaw Malinowski's and Annette Weiner's ethnographic works on the Trobriand Islanders.
8. Elucidate the role of women in the social and economic life of the Bakarwals of Kashmir.
9. What is an ethnographic re-study? Using the ethnographic texts from your course illustrating re-study, discuss its significance.
IMANE-0031
MASTERS IN ANTHROPOLOGY (MAAN)
Term-End Examination
o June, 2016
o
MANE-003: COMPARATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY
Time 3 hours Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. The word limit for the answers of 20 marks questions is 500 words each and for 10 marks questions is 250 words. Attempt at least two questions from each section.
SECfION
1. Trace the history of ethnography as a tool of social science research. Delineate the new trends observed in enthnography today.
2. Discuss how Bronislaw Malinowski initiated the ethnographic approach.
3. Examine Kinship values among the Americans as understood from the ethnographic text, American Kinship: A Cultural Account.
4. Discuss the main content of Andre Beteille's Caste, Class and Power: Changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore Village.
5. Attempt any two of the following:
Writing an ethnography
The symbolists Craude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz and Victor Turner
The family among rural Kashmiri Pandits.
"Death as a living" as portrayed in Death in Banaras
SECTION
6. Deliberate on Michael Fischer's analysis of religious movement in the text, Iran from Religious Dispute to Revolution.
7. Critically discuss the main areas of contention between Bronislaw Malinowski's and Annette Weiner's ethnographic works on the Trobriand Islanders.
8. Elucidate the role of women in the social and economic life of the Bakarwals of Kashmir.
9. What is an ethnographic re-study? Using the ethnographic texts from your course illustrating re-study, discuss its significance.
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