Time: 2 Hours
UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, JUNE 2011
Ph.D. (Anthropology)

Max. Marks: 75
HALL TICKET NUMBER

INSTRUCTIONS:

THIS QUESTION PAPER CONTAINS 4 PAGES. IT HAS TWO PARTS, VIZ., PART "A" FOR 15 MARKS AND PART "B" FOR 60 MARKS.


PART "A" CONSISTS OF 15 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS. EACH CORRECT ANSWER CARRIES "ONE" MARK. THERE IS NEGATIVE AWARD OF 0.33 MARKS FOR EVERY WRONG ANSWER. HOWEVER, THERE IS, HOWEVER, NO NEGATIVE MARKING FOR THE QUESTIONS NOT ATTEMPTED.


PART "B" QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ANSWERED ON A SEPARATE ANSWER BOOK SUPPLIED IN THE EXAMINATION HALL. ADDITIONAL ANSWER SHEETS MAY BE USED IF REQUIRED.


PART"N AND PART "B" ANSWER SCRIPTS SHOULD BE TIED TOGETHER BEFORE HANDING THEM OVER TO THE CONCERNED INVIGILATOR.


THE ENTRANCE TEST PAPER SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN OUT OF THE EXAMINATION HALL.


QUESTIONS-ANSWER SHEET
PART (For a maximum of 15 marks)

Write the correct answer (al bI cI In the bracket
1. Malinowski believed that the central feature of the charter of an institution is The system of values for the pursuit of which human beings
organize. or enter organizations already existing.
The system of consolidated beliefs about the life process of that
particular institution
The goals and objectives of the institution that the people realize
from it
The means through which the objectives have to be met in the
institution

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2 Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski differed on one ofthe following
A custom or institution
Societies tend to maintain stability if societies have homeostatic

qualities
Society is a structured whole
There is casual link between the pre-cultural needs of the

organism and the social system
3 Reflexive method involves
The researcher examining the validity of statements made by the
informants
The researcher uses controlled and experimental procedures
The researcher tests falsification 01 data
The awareness of the relationship between the research and

the community
4. Who stated that Indian tribes are backward Hindus?
.
Marcel Mauss G.S.Ghurye
Louis Dumont M.N.Srinvias

5. Deriving hypothesis from a universal law and testing it is known as
Deductive method Inductive method
Empirical method Exhaustive method

6. The book, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics ofEthnography (1986) was edited by
Clifford and Marcus Marcus and Fisher
Clifford and Fisher J.Denida

7.
Drawing inference from general to particular is known as

Scientific logic Deduction
Sampling Induction


8.
Who characterized Indian ideology as holistic and hierarchical


L.Dumont M.N.Srinivas
Max Weber Milton Singer

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9.
Culture constitutes a separate realm of phenomena and as such it could be explained only in terms of its own laws. This view was subscribed by C.Wissler E.B.Tylor L.H.Morgan A.L.Kroeber

10.
Who of the following is associated with the concept of social drama

Clifford Geertz Victor Turner
David Schneider Karl Marx


11.
Which of the following is not a PRA technique

transect walk social mapping
free-listing and sorting oral narratives


12.
Kindred is a culturally recognized category of

agnatic kin bilateral kin
uterine kin matrilineal kin


13.
The principle of alliance theory is I

solidarity through marital unity of descent group
exchange
sibling solidarity universal avoidance of
descent


14.
The limitations of emic approach is that I• I

it gives natives' point of view it is descriptive and qualitative there can be intra-cultural inadequate for policy variation in emic categories decisions

15.
Which one of the following communities in south India was I studied in detail by Louis Dumont?


Pramalai Kallar Najilnattu Vellalar
Kondayam Kollai Maravar Nayars

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PART-B (For a maximum of 60 marks) Answer all Four quastlons. Each question carries 15 marks.
Discuss how the idea of 'culture area' developed by Clark Wissler is implicit in Franz Boas' notion of culture. Discuss briefly the contribution made by different scholars to the understanding of the concepts of social structure and social organization.
Write an essay on the problems of objectivity in anthropological research. Examine the views of different anthropologists on comparative method.
Write a short note on tribal ethnography in India. What is civilizational approach? How it is applied to uroJerstand the complex Indian civilization
Delineate the theoretical contribution of L.P.Vidyarthi to stud,. Indian society. Discuss the problem of replicability in anthropology and suggest some ways of overcoming this problem. • •