NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam, December 2019 (Anthropology)

41. Contemporary ethnography includes:

(a) Objectivity in approach, data collection and writing process.
(b) Reflexivity on the part of the ethnographer.
(c) Collaboration and multiple authorship.
(d) Details of field work dialogue and experience.
Choose the correct option :

A. (a), (b) and (c)
B. (a), (c) and (d)
C. (a), (b) and (d)
D. (b), (c) and (d)

Correct Answer: D. (b), (c) and (d)

42. Choose the correct answers from the following statements

(a) All societies have economic systems, with or without money.
(b) Incentives for labour vary crossnationally
(c) In complex societies, work groups are informally organised.
(d) Regulation of access to natural resources is a basic fact in all economic systems.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. (a), (c) and (d) are correct
B. (a), (b) and (d) are correct
C. (b), (c) and (d) are correct
D. (a), (b) and (c) are correct

Correct Answer: B. (a), (b) and (d) are correct

43. Which among the following positions are related to political power?

(a) Big woman
(b) Chieftain
(c) Nayak
(d) Leopard-skin chief
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. (a), (b) and (d)
B. (b), (c) and (d)
C. (a), (c) and (d)
D. (a), (b) and (c)

Correct Answer: D. (a), (b) and (c)

44. Who among the following anthropologists studied kinship system?

(a) Robin Fox
(b) Ulf Hannarz
(c) David Schneider
(d) G. P. Murdock
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. (a), (b) and (d) are correct
B. (b), (c) and (d) are correct
C. (a), (b) and (c) are correct
D. (a), (c) and (d) are correct

Correct Answer: D. (a), (c) and (d) are correct

45. Who among the following analysed the ideas of Materialism?

(a) Karl Marx
(b) Marvin Harris
(c) Maurice Block
(d) J.H. Steward
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A. (a), (b) and (d) are correct
B. (b), (c) and (d) are correct
C. (a), (b) and (c) are correct
D. (a), (c) and (d) are correct

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b) and (c) are correct

46. Who among the following studied culture as symbolic code?

(a) Clifford Geertz
(b) Marvin Harris
(c) Victor Turner
(d) Mary Douglas
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A. (a), (b) and (c) are correct
B. (b), (c) and (d) are correct
C. (a), (b) and (d) are correct
D. (a), (c) and (d) are correct

Correct Answer: D. (a), (c) and (d) are correct

47. Which of the following statements are truеe about post-modern thinking?

(a) Anthropology is not a science but hermeneutics.
(b) Ethnographies so far are incomplete, and purely subjective.
(c) Scientific laws are valid.
(d) Truth is fundamentally beyond the reach of all humans.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A. (a), (c) and (d) are correct
B. (b), (c) and (d) are correct
C. (a), (b) and (d) are correct
D. (a), (b) and (c) are correct

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b) and (d) are correct

48. Which of the following are "culture-bound syndromes"?

(a) Pibloktoq
(b) Amok
(c) Anorexia nervosa
(d) Schizophrenia
Choose the correct option:

A. (a), (b) and (c)
B. (b), (c) and (d)
C. (a), (b) and (d)
D. (a), (c) and (d)

Correct Answer: A. (a), (b) and (c)

49. Which of the following statements on Revitalization movements are correct?

(a) They appear at moments of cultural stress.
(b) They are usually the inspiration of one person or at most a few people.
(c) They have anticipated and desirable consequences.
(d) They begin as unfamiliar, often heretical or cultish phenomena.
Choose the correct option:

A. (a), (b) and (c)
B. (a), (b) and (d)
C. (a), (c) and (d)
D. (b), (c) and (d)

Correct Answer: B. (a), (b) and (d)

50. During 1950s, different concepts have come out of studies in rural India. Some of the concepts are :

(a) Rural cosmopolitanism
(b) Dominant caste
(c) Culture of poverty
(d) Parochialisation and universalization
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :