Exam Details

Subject anthropology
Paper
Exam / Course m.phil
Department
Organization central university
Position
Exam Date 2015
City, State telangana, hyderabad


Question Paper

01. Who regarded social anthropology as the branch of comparative sociology?

A. Radcliffe-Brown

B. Durkheim

C. Spencer

D. Malinowski

02. Levi-Strauss was influenced by:

A. De Saussure

B. Roman Jacobson

C. Chomsky

D. Weber

03. If the elements of the model are on the same scale as the phenomena, we deal with:

A. Conscious models

B. Mechanical models

C. Statistical models

D. Unconscious models

04. Who questioned the usefulness ofsocial structure and considered it as vague?

A. R.H. Lowie

B. A.L. Kroeber

C. Baron de Montesquieu

D. R. Firth

05. One among the below proposed experimental method instead of comparative method:

A. Evans-Pritchard

B. Radcliffe-Brown

C. S.F. Nadel

D. E.R. Leach

06. Who stated that social anthropology studies societies as moral or symbolic systems and not as natural systems?

A. Radcliffe-Brown

B. Malinowski

C. E. Smith

D. Evans-Pritchard

07. Who has applied the concept of structure to culture?

A. Fred Eggan

B. Spencer

C. Herskovits

D. Tylor

08. Who considered incest as the atom of kinship?

A. Robin Fox

B. Murdock

C. Radcliffe-Brown

D. Levi-Strauss

09. The distinction between specific and general evolution was first proposed by:

A. Charles Darwin

B. Ferdnard Tonnies

C. Julian steward

D. Marshal Sahlins

10. Which of the following is not a proponent of British School of Diffusionism?

A. G. Elliot Smith

B. Mayer Fortes

C. William J. Perry

D. W. H. R. Rivers
11. Evans Pritchard's monograph, Nuer, is explicitly oriented in the frame work of:

A. Evolutionism

B. Diffusionism

C. Structural-Functionalism

D. Structuralism

12. In Malinowski's theory of needs, what is the organized or collective direct response to the basic need, nutrition or metabolism?

A. Commissariat

B. Domicile and dress

C. Marriage and family

D. Protection and defence

13. Who said, "like phonemes, kinship terms are elements of meanings"?

A. Ruth Benedict

B. Levi-Strauss

C. Ward Goodenough

D. Margaret Mead

14. Abraham Kardiner's basic personality is about:

A. Typical personality of an individual

B. A set oftrends entering into the characters of all individuals reared in the same culture

C. Personality of tribal people

D. Personality of urban groups are communities

15. Sororal polygyny is a form of marriage in which the:

A. Co-wives are sisters

B. Co-husbands are brothers

C. Co-wives are unrelated

D. Co-husbands are unrelated

16. The theory of 'cultural materialism' is associated with:

A. Leslie A. White

B. L. H. Morgan

C. R.R. Marrett

D. Marvin Harri


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