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Subject anthropology
Paper
Exam / Course mains
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Organization Karnataka Public Service Commission
Position
Exam Date 2010
City, State karnataka,


Question Paper

Answer each question in about 50 words. Each question carries 5 marks.
l. Write short notes on the following:

Descent
Totemism
Neanderthal man
Genetic drift


PARTB 10x10=100 Answer each question in about 100 words. Each question carries 10 marks.

2.Discuss the problem of universal definition of marriage.

3.Describe the differences between State and Stateless political systems.

4.Explain the theories related to the origin of religion.

5.Discuss the importance of fieldwork in Anthropology.

6.Describe the distinguishing features of micro-evolution.

7.Explain the relevance of Genetics to Physical Anthropology.

8.Describe the comparative method of the Evolutionists and Functionalists.

9.Explain Radcliffe-Brawn's concept of Social Structure.

10.Discuss the significance of National Character Studies.

11.Describe values as a category of anthropological description.



PARTe 6x15=.90 Answer each question in about 150 wards. Each question carries 15 marks.

12. Explain the universality of the nuclear family.

13. Describe the nature of law and justice in simple societies.

14. Discuss the differences between religion and magic.

15. Elucidate the basis of Risley's racial classification.

16. Describe Ruth Benedict's concept of patterns of culture.

17. Explain the concept of cultural relativism.



Answer any three of the following questions, ea.ch In about 300 words. Each question carries 30 marks.

18. Describe the prohibited categories of marriage, incest and incest taboos.

19. Discuss the practice of Reciprocity and Redistribution in simple societies.

20. Elucidate the role of nutrition in health and disease.

21. Describe Malinowski's theory of needs.

22. Explain Levi-Strauss' concept of a in the study of social structure.



Answer each question in about 50 words. Each question carries 5 marks.

1. Write short notes on the following:

Purusharthas
Dominant Caste
Parochialization
Tool types in Neolithic Age

PART B Answer each question in about 100 words. Each question carries 10 marks. Write an explanatory note on each of the following

2. Lower Palaeolithic Culture

3. Sacred complex

4. Joint family in India

5. Tribe-Caste continuum

6. Characteristics of Classical Caste system

7. Land alienation among the tribals

8. Shifting Cultivation among the tribals

9. Guha's Racial Classification

10. Characteristics of Hunting-gathering tribes

11. Characteristic features of a tribe


Answer each in about 150 words. Each question carries 15 marks.

12. Describe the Nature, Man, Spirit Complex.

13. Explain the relationship between the tribals and the forest.

14. Discuss the concepts of Great Tradition and Little Tradition.

15. Elucidate the different factors in the process of Sanskritization.

16. Describe the earlier policies of isolation and assimilation for Tribals.


17. Elucidate Anthropologists' approach to Tribal problems.

Answer any three of the following questions, each m about 300 words. Each question carries 30 marks.

18. Discuss the Proto-historic (Indus Valley) dimension of Indian Culture.

19. Describe the concepts of Varna and Ashram.

20. Elucidate the Constitutional Safeguards regarding the Scheduled Castes.

21. Explain the different experiences of the Tribals in a culture contact situation.

22. Discuss the concept of National integration with reference to the Tribals.


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