Exam Details

Subject anthropology
Paper
Exam / Course m.phil
Department
Organization central university
Position
Exam Date June, 2010
City, State telangana, hyderabad


Question Paper

1. Culture area concept was proposed by:

A.L. Kroeber

crark wisrer

G. Eiliot smith

w.J. perry

2. Role analysis for understanding social structure was propounded by

R. Firth

C. Levi-Strauss

S. F. Nadel

F. Barth

3. Who contended that there is a general tendency among human societies to . conceive of a change in status on the model of a journey from one town or country to another, or a 'territorial passage'

Robert Hertz

Mayor Fortes

S. F. Nadel

Van Gennnep

4. The basic building blocks of functionalist social analysis are the concepts 'status and most clearly articulated by

Edmund Leach

Ralph Linton

B. Malinowski

Evans-Pritchard

5. Who terms social anthropology as comparative sociology?

Radcliffe-Brown

M.N. Srinivas

G.S. Ghurye

Jack Goody

6. The function of a custom was the contribution it made to the continued life of the social organism. This was explained by

L. H. Morgan

Radcliffe-Brown

Evans Pritchard

M. Mauss

7. In which of the following places in India, Moslem community follows matrilineal rule of descent:

Lakshadweep islands

Nilgiri District of Tamilnadu

Coastal regions of Orissa

North Bihar

8. Who of the following were involved in anthropological/ethnological studies sponsored as part of 'policy of The East India Company' to acquire anthropological information for use in administration:

1. E.T.Dalton
2. H.H. Risley
3. E.Thurston
4. RV.Russell

a)1,2and3only

b)2,3and4only

c)1,3and4only

d)Allfour

9. Who of the following took a civilizational approach to study tribes in India?

A.L. Kroeber

Clark Wisler

G. Elliot Smith

W.J. Perry

10. After Independence, the policies of Government of India on the tribes of North East have been influenced by

B.R Ambedkar

V.Elwin

NK Bose

F. Haimendorf

11.Action Anthropology was developed by

Ruth Benedict

Oscar Lewis

Sol Tax

Jack Goody

12. Modified Area Development Approach (MADA) is meant for

PTGs

NEFA Tribes

Dispersed Tribal groups

Scheduled Areas

13. Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) was established during

a). 4th five year plan

5th five year plan

6th five year plan

i h five year plan

14. Who proposed tribal Panchasheel?

Jawarhal Nehru

ShiloAo

U N Dhebar

Sardar Patel

15. Fifth and Sixth Schedules of the constitution of India deal with

Centre state relations

Administration of tribal areas

Human rights

Central rules in the states

16. A typical ethnography attempts to be

analytic

objective

holistic

idealistic

17. The comparative synthesis of ethnographic information is called

ethnology

New ethnography

comparative sociology

comparative method

18. One of the following statements is wrong

Ethnography is naturalistic

Ethnographic data do not resist formalization

Ethnography is prolonged

Ethnography uncovers the world from the point of view of actors within it

19. 'The Forest People' is an ethnography by

Victor Turner

D.M.Schneider

W,H. Goodenough

C.M.Turnbull

20. Which of the following is not a secondary source of data?

Historical document
District Gazette

Participant observation

Hospital records

21. Which of the following is not a type of probability sampling?

Systematic sampling

Stratified random sampling

Quota sampling

Cluster sampling

22. 'Median' in statistics is one of the measures of

Dispersion

Attitudes

Central tendency

Geographical area

23. Quantitative data in the fieldwork includes all of the following except

Livestock data

Household data

Income levels

Description of a festival

24. is the view point of

The Leader

The informant

The researcher

Informant and researcher

25. Name the anthropologist who first used the genealogical technique to study kinship

Edward Sapir

L.H. Morgan

W.H.R. Rivers

J.G. Frazer

26. Discuss the contribution of diffusionists for the understanding of culture
change?
OR
Write a critical essay on structural.functionalism.

27. Write an essay on Raymond Firth's contribution to social anthropology.

OR
Critically examine the contribution of Levi-Straus to structuralism in Anthropology.

28. Discuss Furer-Haimendorfs contribution to tribal studies in India.

OR
How do you conceptualise social and culture change in contemporary·Indian
society?

29. Discuss the history and scope of applied anthropology.

OR
Explain different barriers and stimulants to change in traditional societies with suitable examples.

30. Distinguish between quantitative data and qualitative data. How do you think qualitative data is analysed, interpreted and presented in report/thesis?

OR
Write short notes on any three of the follOWing:

a Rating and ranking scales
b PRA and RRA techniques and their significance
c Genealogical method and its usefulness in family and kinship studies
d Studying other community and studying one's own community


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