UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD

Entrance Examinatioh, JUNE ZO|O M. Phil. (Anthropology)

Time:
2 Hours

Max. Marks:75

HALL TICKET NUMBER

INSTRUGTIONS:

(1) TLq QUESTION PAPER CONTAINS 5 PAGES. PLEASE COUNT THEM. IT HAS TWO
PART "8" FOR 50 MARKS.

PARTS, VIZ., PART

'A" FOR 25 MARKS AND

(2)

PART 'A" CONSISTS OF 25 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS. EACH CORRECT ANSWER CARRIES 'ONE' IUANX. THERE IS NEGATIVE AWARD OF 0.33 MARK FOR EVERY WRONG ANSWER._ HOWEVER, THERE IS NO NEGATIVE AWARD iON THE QEUSTIONS NOT ATTEMPTED.

(3) (4\ (5)

PART "8" QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ANSWERED ON A SEPARATE ANSWER BOOK SUPPLIED IN THE EMMINATION HALL. ADDITIONAL SHEETS MAY BE USED IF REQUIRED.

PART "A" AND PART -B" ANSWER SCRIPTS SHOULD BE TIED TOGETHER BEFORE HANDING THEM OVEN TO THE CONCERNED
INVIGILATOR.

THE ENTRANCE TEST PAPER SHOULD NoT BE TAKEN oUT oF THE EMMINATION HALL.

============================================================== PART -A (For a maximum of 25 marks)

Write the correct answe r (al btcl d) in the bracket

1.

Culture area concept was proposed

a) A.L. Kroeber b) crark

by:
c) G. Eiliot

wisrer

smith d) w.J. perry

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Role analysis for understanding social structure was propounded a) R.

by I

Firth

b) C. Levi-Strauss

c) S. F.

Nadet

d) 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 lourney from one town or country to another, or a 'territorial passage'

a) Robert
4.

Hertz

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b) Mayor

Fortes

c)

s. F. Nadel d) Van Gennnep

The basic building blocks of functionalist social analysis are the concepts 'status
and role', most clearly articulated

by

a) Edmund
5.

Leach

b) Rarph Linton c) B.

Marinowski d) Evans- pritchard

who terms sociar anthroporogy as comparative

a)

sociorogy?
Ghurye

Radcliffe-Brown

b) M.N.

srinivas

c) G.s.

d) 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

a) L.H.
7.

Morgan b) Radcliffe-Brown c) Evans pritchard d) M. Mauss

rule of

ln which of the following places in lndia, Moslem community matrilineal

descentr

fofiows

a) Lakshadweep islands c) Coastal regions of Orissa

b) Nilgiri District of Tamilnadu d) North Bihar studies acquire I

8' who of thg following were involv-ed anthropological/ethnological .in sponsored as part of 'policy of The East lndii comp"nvr io
anthropological information for use in

administration:

2. H.H. Ristey 3. E.Thurston 4. R.V.Russell

a) 1,2 and 3 onry
b) 2, 3 and 4

1. E.T.Dalton

onry c) 1, 3 and 4 onry

d) Ail four

9'

Who of the following took a civilizational approach to study tribes a) Nirmal Kumar Bose and Surjit Sinha c) L.P.Vidyarthi and p.K Misra

in

lndia?

b) Roy Burman and B.D Sharma d) T.N.Madan and D.N Majumdar

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10' After lndependence, the policies of Government North East have been influenced

by

of lndia on the tribes of

t t
I

a) B.R

Ambedkar

b)

V.Erwin

c) N K Bose d) F. Haimendorf

11.Action Anthropology was developed

by a) Ruth Benedict b) oscar Lewis

c) sor

rax

d) Jack Goody

12. Modified

Area Deveropment Approach (MADA) is meant

for

a) PTGs b) NEFA Tribes c) Dispersed rribal

13' lntegrated

groups

d) Scheduted Areas

rribar Deveropment Agency (rrDA) was estabrished during t Jive year ptan b) s: five year ptan :J 6"' five year plan c) ^1;^ d) 7*n five year plan

14.Who proposed tribal

panchasheeft t a) Jawarhal Nehru b) shilo Ao c) U N Dhebar d) sardar pater

and sixth schedules of the constitution of lndia deal

15. Fifth

with

relations c) Human rights

a) Centre state 16.A typical ethnography attempts to a)

b) Administration of tribal areas d) Central rules in the states

be
c)

analytic

t holistic
d) idealistic

b)

objective

17. The comparative synthesis of ethnographic information is

called t

a) ethnology c) comparative.

^^ :_, sociology

b) Newethnography Oi compaiaiive metnod

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18. One of the following statements is

wrong

a) Ethnography is naturalistic b) _Ethnographic data do not resist formalization c) Ethnography is prolonged d) Ethnograp,ly glcovers the world from the point of view of.actors within it 19. 'The Forest people, is an ethnography

by

a) Victor Turner c) W.H. Goodenough

b) D.M.Schneider d) C.M.Turnbuil

20. which of the following is not a secondary source of

data?

c)

a)

Historical document Participantobservation

b) District Gazette d) Hospital records

21. which of the foilowing is not a type of probabirity

sampring?

a) Systematic sampling c) Quota sampling

b) Stratified random sampling d) Cluster sampling

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

a) Dispersion

b)

Attitudes c) centrartendency d) Geographicar

includes all of the following

area
t

23' Quantitative data in the fieldwork

except

a) Livestock data c) lncome levels

24. 'Emic'is the view point of

b) Household data d) Desqription of a festival

a) The Leader c) The researcher

b) The informant d) lnformant and researcher

25' Name the anthropologist who first used the genealogical rvvr""Yt= - v-..vgrvv'vur technique to study kinship [ I a) Edward sapir b) L.H. Morgan c) w.H.R. Rivers d) J.G. Frazer

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PART-B (For a maximum of S0 marks)

Answer the following Questions. Each question caries 10 marks.

1'

Discuss the contribution of diffusionists for the understanding of culiure change? OR

write a criticar essay on structurarfunctionarism.

2. write

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

OR

Critically examine
Anthropology.

the

contribution

of

Levi-Straus

to

structuralism in

3.

Discuss Furer-Haimendorfs contribution to tribal studies in lndia.

OR

How do you conceptualise social and culture change in contemporary lndian society?

4.

Discuss the history and scope of applied anthropology. OR Explain different barriers and stimulants fo change -."s- in traditional societies with suitable

examples.

5' Distinguish between q.uantitative data and qualitative data. How

qualitative data is anarysed, interpreted and'presented in
OR

do you think

-poruin".irz

Write short notes on any three of the following:

Genealogical I studying othermethod and its usefulneis in tamiry and kinship studies d. community and studying onub'o*n

a. Rating and ranking scates b. PRA and RRA techniques and their significance

"orrunity

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