1. The analysis of life as a game was developed by this anthropologist, who treated individuals as rational actors seeking their personal advantage

Fredrik Barth

Clifford Geertz

E.R.Leach

Max Gluckman

2. Who argued for the impossibility of exact translation between language and demonstrated that no meaning exiss outside language?

Edward Sapir

Dell Hymes

Edward Said

J. Derrida


3. Despite their association with very different social systems, totemism and Indian caste system have logical structures, which are similar in their organization. This was explained by

Louis Dumont

ER Leach

Levi-Strauss

S.Freud

4. Book with the title, 'Writing Cultures': The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (1986) was written by

James Clifford George Marcus

George Marcus Michel Fischer

Michel Fischer James Clifford

Clifford Geertz

5. Match the following:

1. Karl Popper a. Positivism
2. J. S. Mills b. Deductive method
3. E Durkheim c. PhenomenoloQV
4. E Husserl d. Inductive method

1-b 2-c 3-d 4-a

4-c

4-d

4-d

6. Match the following:

1. Transaction a. Claude Meillassoux
2. Binary opposition b. Maurice Godelier
3. Production-reproduction c. Fredrik Barth
4. Infrastructure-superstructure d. Levi-Strauss

4-b

4-d

4-d

4-a

7. Match the following:

1. PRA a. WHR Rivers
2. GenealoQV b. Kenneth Pike
3. Ethnography Text c. Robert Chambers
4. Emic -Etic d. James Clifford

4-b

4-c

4-1

4-b

8. Of the following who argued that Indian society is static?

C. J. Fuller

Surajit Sinha

Louis Dumont

L.P Vidyarthi

9. Verrier Elwin who contributed to the knowledge of tribal India is known as

Social Anthropologist

Ethnographer

Ethno-historian

Indologist

10. The branch of anthropology concerned with what people know and how that knowledge changes the way people perceive and relates to the world around them is

symbolic anthropology

interpretive anthropology

cognitive anthropology

structural anthropology

11. The method which enables the analyst to trace how events chain on to one another and how they are linked to one another through time is called

situational analysis

extended case study

content analysis

comparative method

12. The approach of Clifford Geertz is that of

interpretative

empirical-descriptive

hermeneutic-phenomenology

all the above

13. 'The Muria and their ghotul' is written by

Furer-Haimendorf

S.C.Dube

Verrier Elwin

P.K.Bhowmik

14. Which of the following works resulted in controversy over the ethnography

Coming of Age in Samoa of M. Mead

The Andaman Islanders of R.Brown

The Nuer of Evans-Pritchard

The South Indian Sub-caste of L. Dumont

15. Which of the following are PRAIRRA techniques? 1. Transact walk 2. Resource mapping 3. Focus Group Discussion 4. Census

3 4

4

1,2 3

2,3 4

16. Discuss how the functional paradigm put forth by Malinowski is entirely
linked to his ethnographic method.
OR
Are the emotional stress and strain of adolescence biologically determined or a product of culturally specific practices? Discuss how Margaret Mead approached this problem.

17. Write a critique on the structuralist theory of society.
OR
Write an essay on theoretical contribution of Clifford Geertz.


18. Examine the work of Verrier Elwin in the field of tribal religion in India.

OR
Write a critical essay on the merits and demerits of any ethnographic work about Indian tribe or caste that you have read.

19. Discuss various ways of overcoming the problem of validity and reliability in anthropological research.

OR Write short notes on any three of the following

Case study and case history
Comparative method
Sociometry
PRA techniques