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(1) Identify the correct sequence of the development of anthropological theories :
(1) Evolution → Diffusion → Structure and function → Culture and personality
(2) Culture and personality → Structure and function → Diffusion → Evolution
(3) Evolution → Diffusion → Culture and personality → Structure and function
(4) Diffusion → Evolution → Structure and function → Culture and personality
Answer: Evolution → Diffusion → Structure and function → Culture and personality
(2) Arrange the following books in order in which they appeared (in ascending order).
(1) We the Tikopia by Raymond Firth → Suicide by Emile Durkheim → The Kamar by S.C. Dubey → The Mirror of Man by Clyde Kluckhohn
(2) Suicide by Emile Durkheim → We the Tikopia by Raymond Firth → The Mirror of Man by Clyde Kluckhohn → The Kamar by S.C. Dubey
(3) Suicide by Emile Durkheim → The Mirror of Man by Clyde Kluckhohn → The Kamar by S.C. Dubey → We the Tikopia by Raymond Firth
(4) The Mirror of Man by Clyde Kluckhohn → We the Tikopia by Raymond Firth → The Kamar by S.C. Dubey → Suicide by Emile Durkheim
Answer: We the Tikopia by Raymond Firth → Suicide by Emile Durkheim → The Kamar by S.C. Dubey → The Mirror of Man by Clyde Kluckhohn

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(3) Arrange Anthony Wallace’s concept of organization of religious beliefs and practices in descending order :
(1) Individualistic cult → Shamanistic cult → Communal cult → Ecclesiastical cult
(2) Ecclesiastical cult → Communal cult → Individualistic cult → Shamanistic cult
(3) Shamanistic cult → Communal cult → Ecclesiastical cult → Individualistic cult
(4) Ecclesiastical cult → Communal cult → Shamanistic cult → Individualistic cult
Answer: Ecclesiastical cult → Communal cult → Shamanistic cult → Individualistic cult
(4) The prenatal diagnostic technique that can detect neural tube defects is
(1) Radiography
(2) Alpha Fetoproteins test
(3) Ultrasonography
(4) Chorionic villus sampling
Answer: Alpha Fetoproteins test
(5) Which one of the following primate fossils is known as “Aberrent Ape” ?
(1) Gigantopithecus
(2) Ramapithecus
(3) Kenyapithecus
(4) Oreopithecus
Answer: Oreopithecus
(6) Alkaptonuria is caused by the deficiency of
(1) Tyrosinase
(2) Arginase
(3) Homogentisic acid oxidase
(4) Carbamyl synthase
Answer: Homogentisic acid oxidase
(7) Short stature is a typical feature of
(1) Klinefelter syndrome
(2) Turner syndrome
(3) Fragile X-syndrome
(4) Edward syndrome
Answer: Edward syndrome
(8) The basic classification of finger ball patterns was given by
(1) S.B. Holt
(2) J.D. Malavwala
(3) Francis Galton
(4) Edward Henry
Answer: Francis Galton
(9) Favism leading to acute hemolytic anemia is due to 7
(1) Hemoglobin
(2) Iron deficiency
(3) Thalassemia
(4) G6PD deficiency
Answer: G6PD deficiency
(10) Taurodontism is seen in which of the following hominids ?
(1) Australopithecus
(2) Homo habilis
(3) Homo erectus
(4) Neanderthal man
Answer: Neanderthal man
(11) The classification of simple societies into Band, Tribe, Chiefdom and kingdom in American Anthropology was first done by
(1) Marshal Sahlins
(2) Elmen Service
(3) Julian Steward
(4) Henry Maine
Answer: Elmen Service
(12) Who substituted the term bride-price with bride-wealth ?
(1) M.N. Srinivas
(2) S.C. Roy
(3) L.H. Morgan
(4) E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Answer: E.E. Evans-Pritchard
(13) New Ethnography appeared in anthropology in order to
(1) partially accept and partially denounce culture and personality school.
(2) improve the quality of data collection and interpretation.
(3) accept functionalism and structuralism both.
(4) denounce evolution and diffusion
Answer: improve the quality of data collection and interpretation.
(14) The classificatory and the descriptive Kinship terminologies were first brought to the notice in anthropology by
(1) B.K. Malinowski
(2) L.H. Morgan
(3) E.E. Evans-Pritchard
(4) D.N. Majumdar
Answer: L.H. Morgan
(15) One can judge the level of a culture by “the amount of energy harnessed and put to use per capita per year by the group”, has been proposed by
(1) Leslie White
(2) Abram Kardiner
(3) V.G. Childe
(4) Cora Du-Bois
Answer: Leslie White

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