BPSC Exam 2025: Integrated 70th Combined Main (Written) Competitive Examination, Optional, Anthropology
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SECTION – I
(Compulsory)
1. The researches of linguistic 4. In such societies political power resides
anthropologists is based upon the in a single individual, who either acts
alone or in association with the advisory
following assumption, which states
that language is relative to culture and politically not having the power under
that one’s language affects how they single head instead are composed of
perceive the world several political units. They are called
(A) The Chiefdom
(A) Ochs and Schieffelin
(B) The State
(B) Dell Hymes model (C) The Tribe
(C) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (D) The Band
(D) None of the above
5. The book Anthropologium contains
2. The term ‘Proto-anthropology’ was
anthropology in the history of the
used by the following to refer to
discipline. Who was the author of it ?
near-anthropological writings which
contain some of the criteria for being (A) J. F. Blumenbach
anthropology (B) Otto Casmann
(A) T. H. Eriksen and F. S. Nielsen (C) Comte De Buffon
(B) John Mayrs (D) Magnus Hundt
(C) T. H. Eriksen
(D) G. W. Lasker and R. N. Tyzzer 6. The principle of cultural relativism that
was established as axiomatic, but
3. Marriage by capture is found in many
societies. The capture can be a physical
capture or a ceremonial one. This kind following scholar through the milestone
of marriage is found among the following anthropological researches
society
(A) L. H. Morgan
(A) Nagas of Nagaland
(B) Yahomamo of Venezuela, Northern (B) Edward Sapir
Brazil
(C) Franz Boas
(C) Kharia and the Birhor of Bihar
(D) Among all of above (D) Claude Levi Straus
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7. The community which is politically 11.
integrated (often through a council of anthropology as “a special form of
elders or other leaders) and shared a
anthropology that uses material remains
language, religious beliefs, traditions
of common descent, other aspects of to study extinct human societies” ?
culture and ideology known as
(A) V. G. Childe
(A) Caste
(B) Brian Fagon
(B) Moiety
(C) Tribe (C) C. Renfrew and P. Bahn
(D) Phratry (D) None of the above
8. When a man’s wife gives birth to a child, 12. ln many of the Islamic societies a man
the husband is forced to live a life of
marries his father’s brother’s daughter.
austerity among some tribal societies in
India The type of marriage is called
(A) Teknonymy (A) Cross cousin marriage
(B) Amitate
(B) Hypogamy
(C) Couvade
(C) Parallel cousin marriage
(D) None of the above
(D) All of the above
9. A religious belief system, which is
primarily prevalent among certain tribal 13. A renowned French anthropologist,
communities in India, notably among the
Santal and Munda tribes of Jharkhand,
Odisha and West Bengal known as the Kinship as the following
following
(A) Kinship is not set of genealogical
(A) Bongaism
relationships, it is set of social
(B) Animism
relationships
(C) Hinduism
(B) Kinship and its related notions are at
(D) None of the above
the same time prior and exterior to
10. Malinowski’s ethnography of the biological relations to which we tend
Trobriand Islands described a complex
to reduce them
institution that became foundational for
subsequent theories of reciprocity and (C) Kinship is a socio-cultural
exchange. It is construction that creates a network
(A) Kula ring of social and biological relationships
(B) Field work between people
(C) Participant observation
(D) None of the above
(D) None of the above
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14. It is a belief in supernatural forces or 17. Following group of peoples is called
powers that exist independently of living band if that is characterized by
beings or deities and centers on the
idea of impersonal and abstract powers
residing within natural elements and people and Kin-based, with weak
inanimate objects. It is leadership
(A) Bongaism (B) Fluid, mobile and egalitarian society
(B) Animism and do not generate surpluses, pay
(C) Animatism taxes, or support a standing army
(D) None of the above
(C) None of the above
(D) Both are correct
15.
“The doctrine of human nature. Human 18. The reckoning of relationship by male
nature is an essence partaking of two link exclusively, regardless of sex of
worlds, the spiritual and the corporeal, ego among simple or complex human
yet united in one vehicle” by the following societies is referred as the following
scholar
(A) Progmatic
(A) Fernando Vidal
(B) Coagnatic
(B) Eric Wolf
(C) Agnatic
(C) Otto Casmann
(D) None of the above
(D) Marvin Harris
19. Who of the following renowned
16. In anthropologists said, “The purpose of
anthropology is to make the world safe
publication of “The Archaeology and for human differences” ?
Prehistoric Annals of Scotland”
(A) Cora Dubois
(A) Mortimer Wheeler
(B) Ruth Benedict
(B) Sir John Lubbock
(C) D. N. Majumdar
(C) Daniel Wilson
(D) None of the above (D) Franz Boas
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20. _________ devoted mainly his time in 24. In
studying society and culture and that argued that the World was full of distinct
is why is understood as the founder of cultures,, rather than societies whose
social anthropology in European World. evolution could be measured by how ww
much or how little “civilization” they had
(A) E. B. Tylor
(A) A. L. Kroeber w
(B) A. C. Haddon
(B) A. R. Radcliffe Brown
(C) Franz Boas
(C) Franz Boas
(D) B. Malinowski
(D) James Frazer
21. He is known for developing ‘Speaking
Model’ and ‘Theory of communicative 25. ln words of the following scholar’s
milestone publication – The Great
Anthropology Transformation, “the outstanding
discovery of recent historical and
(A) Franz Boas anthropological research is that man’s
(B) Steven Pinker economy, as a rule, is submerged in his
(C) Dell Hymes social relationships”
(A) Raymond Firth
(D) Edward Sapir
(B) Karl Polanyi
22. According to economic anthropology, there (C) M. J. Herskovits
are two meanings of economy – one,
(D) Adam Smith
which refers to a category of observable
behavior in human society e.g., 26.
production, consumption, distribution is marriage as a universal institution
called that involves residential co-habitation,
(A) Substantive economic co-operation and formation of
the nuclear family ?
(B) Formal
(A) Edward Westermarck
(C) Modern
(B) George Peter Murdock
(D) None of the above
(C) Kathleen Gough
23. (D) Notes and Queries on Anthropology
the discipline of anthropology came with
the famous Cambridge Anthropological 27. The following book which is authored
Expedition to the Torres Strait Islands by a famous American anthropologist
Margaret Mead is
New Guinea and Borneo. The team was (A) Coming of Age in Samoa and
led by Growing Up in New Guinea
(A) Alfred Cort Haddon (B) Sex and Temperament in Three
(B) C. G. Seligman Primitive Societies
(C) W. H. R. Rivers (C) All of the above
(D) C. S. Myers (D) None of the above
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28. Who characterized anthropology as “The 31. Who opined Anthropology, that is to say
the science that treats of man, is divided
ordinarily and with reason into Anatomy,
most humanistic of the social sciences” ?
which considers the body and the parts
(A) Franz Boas and psychology, which speaks of the
soul ?
(B) Paul Broca
(A) Comte De Buffon
(C) Marvin Harris
(B) Otto Casmann
(D) Eric Wolf (C) Bartholins
29. If a couple after marriages reside with (D) None of the above
the groom’s mother’s brother’s family 32. A form of marriage in which after the
or maternal uncles house known as death of an elder brother the younger
brother is obliged to marry the widow is
avunculocal residence family. This kind
called
of family is found in the following
(A) Inbreeding
(A) Ashanti of Ghana (B) Fraternal Polyandry
(B) Bhotias of Uttarakhand (C) Levirate
(C) Todas of Neelgiri Hills (D) Sororate
(D) Among all of above 33. Match the following.
i. Penniman, T. K. x. Primitive
30. The pace of the anthropological culture
applications was heavily accelerated by ii. Taylor, E. B. y. A Hundred
milestone work initiated by the following years of
Anthropology
iii. Kroeber, A. L. z. The Nature of
USA Culture
Options are given below :
(A) Margaret Mead
(A) i – y, ii – x and iii – z
(B) Sol Tox
(B) i – x, ii – y and iii – z
(C) George Foster (C) i – y, ii – z and iii – x
(D) None of the above (D) i – z, ii – y and iii – x
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SECTION – II (a)
(Optional)
34. Th 37. The Ainus is an ancient ethnic stock
of Japan which that also possesses
of an upper jaw and some teeth, were
Mongoloid physical features, besides it
basically belongs to
(A) Mongoloid
the Siwalik Hills of northern India by
(B) Australoid
(A) David Pilbeam (C) Negroid
(B) E. Simmons (D) Caucasoid
(C) A. Wilson 38. The theory of evolution explains how
evolution occurs through genetic
(D) V. Sarich variations in populations, which lead to
the formation of new species is called
(A) Synthetic theory
35. Which anthropologist is known for their
(B) Germ plasm theory
work on human genetic diversity and the
(C) Natural selection
“Out of Africa” theory of modern man
(D) Neutral theory
dispersal ?
(A) L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza 39. It is found in general surveys that weight
(B) Julian Steward average female weight in relation to male
among them is noted as below
(C) Johann Blumenbach
(D) Charles Darwin
36. Disorders like Brachydactyly (short
40. The concept of ‘hominins’ is used for
Huntington’s chorea are due to the
describing understanding phylogeny of
following
Primates in Paleoanthropology. It refers to
(A) Co-dominant Inheritance (A) Primates such as chimpanzees
(B) Incomplete Dominance (B) Non-human living Hominoids
(C) Dominant Inheritance (C) Human ancestors and related
species
(D) Recessive Inheritance
(D) Cercopithecoidea
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41. If a brown-eyed woman marries a blue- 44. He is paleoanthropologist known for
their contributions to the study of human
eyed man, their children will have brown
eyes. If one of their children marries of ‘Paranthropus Boisei’ fossil
(A) Johann Blumenbach
another person who is heterozygous for
(B) Paul Broca
eye color, most of their children will have
(C) Louis Leakey
brown eyes, but some will have blue. It (D) Charles Darwin
unfolds that 45. Gigantopithecus bilaspurensis, initially
named for paired lower jaw bones and
(A) Blue eyes are dominant
teeth from deposits in the Siwalik Hills
(B) Brown eyes are dominant
million years ago, was discovered by
(C) Both colour of eyes are dominant (A) Koenigswald, G. Von
(B) G. E. Lewis
(D) None of the above
(C) E. Simmons and S. R. K. Chopra
42. In (D) David Pilbeam and E. Simmons
famous book “Man’s Most Dangerous 46. Typical physical features of the Lapps
Myth : The Fallacy of Race” was written ethnic group are as follows
by (A) Straight, slightly wavy hair and dark
brown to black colour
(A) C. S. Coon (B) Greyish-yellow and yellowish-brown
complexion
(B) W. C. Boyd
(C) Brachycephalic head and
(C) Ashley Montagu Mesorrhine nose
(D) None of the above (D) All of the above
47. He has proposed the concept of the
43. The theory of the Inheritance of the
“multiregional theory or polycentric
Acquired Character proposed by
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, has been hypothesis” regarding the evolution of
explained in the following book modern human
(A) Philospphie Zoologique (A) Donald Johanson
(B) Histoire Naturelle (B) Chris Stringer
(C) Origin of Species (C) Milford H. Wolpoff
(D) Systema Naturae (D) Mary Leakey
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48. Brain size of Humans is larger than 51. The hypothesis that modern humans
separate lines of races from Homo
erectus, into the Caucasoid, Mongoloid,
Australoid, Congoid and Capoid was
estimated as mainly given by
(A) C. S. Coon
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) J. F. Blumenbach
(D) E. A. Hooton
52. ABO blood group has four phenotypes
(A, B, AB and O). The genes for
A, B and O are widespread among
49. Propliopithecus is an extinct genus of all groups of modern human species.
Indicate among the following given
Primate. This is most likely an omnivore alleles which is the rarest in humanity
(A) Allele A
today’s following living primate (B) Allele O
(C) Allele B
(A) Baboon (D) None of the above
(B) Siamong
53. Dental arch of humans is parabolic
(C) Gibbon whereas anthropoid apes have different
form, it is of following shape
(D) None of the above
(A) U shaped
(B) Crescent form
50. If the Genes for different traits are sorted
(C) V shaped
separately and the inheritance of one (D) None of the above
trait is dependent of another among
54. He is known as the “father of physical
humans, then it’s an example of the
anthropology” due to his pioneer and
following principle
milestone contribution in the growth of
(A) Law of Independent assortment discipline
(A) Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
(B) Law of Dominance
(B) Louis Leakey
(C) Law of Segregation
(C) S. L. Washburn
(D) None of the above (D) Francis Galton
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55. Following hereditary disease among 58. Wh
humans is controlled by the recessive populations differing in the incidence of
inheritance pattern. The name of it is certain genes, capable of exchanging
genes across boundaries that separate
(A) Marfan syndrome
them” ?
(B) Alkaptonuria (A) T. Dobzhansky
(C) Polycystic kidney disease (B) E. A. Hooton
(D) None of the above (C) J. F. Blumenbach
56. The concept of “new physical (D) C. S. Coon
This concept shifted the focus of 59. Physical anthropology compares
humankind across the time and space
to the study of human evolution and anatomically as well as genetically. But
evolutionary processes, genetics,
the following is not a method used to
primatology and paleoanthropology in
20th century AD. The name of concerned determine the age of human skeletal
physical anthropologist is given below remains
(A) T. Dobzhansky (A) Dental development
(B) Ernst Mayr
(B) Bone morphology
(C) S. L. Washburn
(C) DNA analysis
(D) Ashley Montagu
(D) Radiocarbon dating
57. The following paleoanthropologist had
excavated a fossil skull in December 60. He is known for their contributions
to the discovery of the hominid fossil
in Hathnora of Madhya Pradesh, India excavation i.e., Australopithecus
Afarensis in Africa
(A) Arun Sonakia
(A) Raymond Dart
(B) K. A. R. Kennedy
(B) Eugene Dubois
(C) E. Simmons
(C) Louis Leakey
(D) S. R. K. Chopra
(D) Donald Johanson
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61. He is recognized for his contribution in 64. In human population there are several
forensic anthropology, particularly in kinds of hereditary traits and diseases.
developing technique for estimating age The following is caused by a dominant
at death from osteological remains
named as
(A) Elizabeth Miller
(A) Huntington’s disease
(B) Alphans Bertillon
(B) Sickle cell anemia
(C) Donald Johanson
(C) Epiloea
(D) William M. Bass
(D) Hepatitis B
62. 65. The process of microevolution takes
constituting the main types in Indian place at the level of populations or
species among all organisms due to the
population. These are as follows : following evolutionary force
Australoid, Indo-Aryan, Irano-Scythian, (A) Mutation
Mundari speaking people, Far Eastern (B) Selection
and Mongolian
(D) All of the above
(A) A. C. Haddon
66. The study of human skeletal remains
(B) Sir Herbert Risley
to determine time and cause of death,
(C) S. S. Sarkar
ethnicity and stature is known as
(D) B. S. Guha (A) Human anatomy
(B) Taphanomy
63.
(C) Forensic anthropology
great ape discovered. It was discovered
(D) Paleoanthropology
in Saint Gaudens, France, by Edouard
Lartet in 67. Who has studied orangutans longer
than other person in human history and
worked ceaselessly to save orangutan ?
(A) Carpenter
(B) B. Mary Galdikas
(C) Jane Goodall
(D) Mary Leakey
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OR
SECTION – II (b)
(Optional)
68. The idea which proposes that types 70. A tribal movement was led by Jatra
of technology and economic methods Bhagat and Turia Bhagat and was
primarily carried out by the Oraon
that are adopted always determine the
people. The Tana Bhagats protested
type of society that develops. They are against the British authorities. The goal
of Tana Bhagat movement was due to
the following reason
This is known as
(A) Exploitative practices of local
(A) Culture Determinism Zamindars
(B) Cultural Relativism (B) Taxes and forced labour
(C) Moneylenders and missionaries
(C) Culture Core
(D) All of the above
(D) None of the above
71. In archeological anthropology survey
69. Find out the correct statement. different strategies and methods are
adopted in the excavation depending
upon the aim, the area and the time
available for excavation. Popular
methods of excavation, it is also called
rank based on the extent of their as rectangular trenching system but
Mortimer Wheeler has named it as
contribution to the realization of its
(A) Vertical trenching
paramount value.
(B) Substantive trenching
2. Turner’s theory of value focuses (C) Vertical excavation
on practice or action more than (D) None of the above
structure, but he takes greater pains
72. The Modal Personality is the most
to phrase his contribution in Marxist common personality structure in a
terms. society, but it’s not necessarily common
to all members of that society. The
concept of personality was developed by
(A) Ruth Benedict
(B) Ralph Linton
(C) Margaret Mead
(D) Cora-du-Bois
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73. Who said that ‘ Evolution is a change 76. The bio-cultural evolution was developed
in the 1960s through early 1980s
heterogeneity; through continuous
differentiations and infegrotions’ ? product of two different and interacting
(A) L. H. Morgan evolutionary processes pertained to gene
(B) E. B. Tylor and culture. Supporters of this theory are
(C) Herbert Spencer (A) Richardson and Boyd
(D) None of the above (B) John Stuart Mill and F. B.
Livingstone
74. The following Indian anthropologist (C) M. Fieldman and L. C. Cavalli
has pointed out that through planned Sforza
development India can achieve a modern (D) All of the above
77. Anthropologists are engaged in empirical
increase in agricultural and industrial
research as well as laboratory analyses
and archival investigations. They adopt
man power the following approaches to study human
(A) Gopal Saran society and culture
(B) L. P. Vidyarthi (A) Comparative approach
(B) Holistic and ethnographic approach
(C) T. N. Madan
(C) Historical approach
(D) None of the above
(D) All of the above
75. Ins 78. Who has proposed the concept
the sacred-profane dichotomy
‘The Elementary Structures of Kinship’ in and considered it to be the central
1943 that effort offered a new approach
and practices relative to sacred things” ?
(A) Descent theory
(B) Structuralism (B) E. B. Tylor
(C) Alliance theory (C) James Frazer
(D) None of the above (D) Franz Boas
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79. The theory of kulturkreis (‘culture circle’ 82. Who had led the movement called
or ‘culture center’) had been proposed “Santhal Hool” (the revolt of the
to explain how diffusion actually takes Santhals) and continued to attack the
British and their sycophantic allies from
place. It is pertained to the following
school of diffusionists the colonial authorities ?
(A) British School of Diffusion (A) Budhu Bhagat
(B) American School of Diffusion (B) Diva-Kishun Soren
(C) Tilka Manjhi
(C) German School of Diffusion
(D) Turia Bhagat
(D) All of the above
83. Match the following.
80. A critique “claims that the underlying i. The Argonauts e. Claude Lévi-Strauss
principle of Lévi-Strauss theory, of the Western
according to which all societies work is
the exchange of women by men who ii. Coming of f. E. E. Evans-Pritchard
dispose of them, as if they were objects.” Age in Samoa
Name the critique
iii. The Nuer g. Margaret Mead
(A) British Neo structuralist
iv. Tristes h. Bronisaw
(B) Leiden School Tropiques Malinowski
(C) Marxists Options are as below :
(D) Feminists (A) i – h, ii – g, iii – f and iv – e
(B) i – e, ii – f, iii – g and iv – h
81. A major critique of development
(C) i – g, ii – h, iii – e and iv – f
from anthropologists came through
(D) i – f, ii – g, iii – h and iv – e
seminal book entitled ‘Encountering
Development’, which argued that 84. Following scholar believed that
anthropology only involves comparisons
Western development largely exploited
and that there is no comparative
non-western peoples and enacted an method. He also believed that building
orientalism, it is written by comparisons from the ground up,
(A) Glynn Cochrane histories, was a safer method than the
comparative method
(B) Alan Hoben (A) Oscar Lewis
(B) A. R. Radcliffe Brown
(C) Arturo Escober (C) Gopala Sarana
(D) Franz Boas
(D) None of the above
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85. Who designed the ‘Harvard Comparative 88. According to American Anthropologist
Study of Values in Five Cultures’ and Ralf Linton’s opinion, diffusion takes
conducted this large-scale research place through the process of the
following
project aimed at comparing the values of -
(A) Presentation of new cultural elements
Navaho, Zuni, Spanish-America, Mormons
or traits and acceptance of these
cultural traits by society
(A) E. M. Albert (B) Integration of accepted cultural traits
(B) Leslie White into the accepting culture
(C) (A) and (B) both are correct
(C) Clyde Kluckhohn
(D) None of the above
(D) A. L. Kroeber
89. Among the early thinkers of seventeenth
86. and eighteenth centuries AD he had
proposed development anthropology as proposed an evolutionary scheme
consisting of three stages : hunting or
savagery, herding or barbarism and
a career outside academia
civilization. His name is
(A) Bob Berg
(A) Adam Ferguson
(B) Glynn Cochrane (B) John Miller
(C) Thayer Scudder (C) Charles Baron de Montesquieu
(D) None of the above (D) L. H. Morgan
90. Who opined that there are several
87. In which tribal movement a slogan “Abua dilemmas that we need to reconcile
raj ete jana, maharani raj tundu jana” in the context of development like
endogenous versus exogenous
(“Let the kingdom of the queen be ended
development, self-reliance versus
and our kingdom be established” ) was interdependence, growth versus
given by the leadership to oppose British distribution, industry versus agriculture,
rule ? centralised versus decentralised
planning, etc. ?
(A) Tamar Movement
(A) L. P. Vidyarthi
(B) Kherwar Movement
(B) S. C. Roy
(C) Birsa Munda Movement
(C) S. C. Dube
(D) None of the above (D) D. N. Majumdar
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91. Write true or false. 93. Match the following tribal revolts in India.
i. Structuralism emphasizes that
elements of a system can only be
understood in relation to the whole
structure.
Options are as below :
oppositions (e.g., hot/cold, male/ (A) i – n, ii – m, iii – p and iv – o
female) as fundamental organizers (B) i – p, ii – o, iii – n and iv – m
of structure. (C) i – o, ii – p, iii – n and iv – m
(D) i – m, ii – o, iii – p and iv – n
iii. Structuralism maintains that the
94. According to American Anthropologist-
Ralf Linton following is a culture
construct
Options are as follows : (A) Culture is the sum total of behaviour
of the members of the society, which
(A) iii is correct but i and ii are false
are learned and shared in particular
(B) All are correct situations
(B) Culture pattern is formed by
(C) ii is correct but i and iii are false
philosophical traditions. In this,
(D) i is correct but ii and iii are false some traits of culture are regarded
as ideals
92. Who opined that ‘natural laws of society (C) Both of the above
could be discovered with the use of (D) None of the above
comparative method based on the
95. The following anthropologist had
observation, description and comparison proposed seven differing stages of
of societies as they actually existed’ ? human culture : lower, middle and upper
savagery; lower, middle and upper
(A) G. P. Murdock
barbarism; and civilization
(B) E. Durkheim (A) L. H. Morgan
(C) A. R. Radcliffe Brown (B) John Miller
(C) E. B. Tylor
(D) Evans-Pritchard
(D) Franz Boas
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96. Which social anthropologists had stated 99. The Values that are believed to
that ‘the functionalist anthropologists transcend cultural boundaries and should
regard history in this sense, usually apply universally to all people, regardless
a mixture of fact and fancy, as highly
of cultural background are known as
relevant to a study of the culture of which
(A) Universal values
it forms part’ ?
(A) B. Malinowski (B) Cultural Relativism
(B) Max Gluckman (C) Norms
(C) A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (D) All of the above
(D) E. E. Evans-Pritchard
100. According to multilinear theory of culture
97. The following scholar had made
theory) towards cultural development
development and application of “content and individual cultures develop differently
analysis method” in view of studying and cultural evolution occurs differently.
culture at a distance Proponents of this idea are
(A) James Frazer (A) Marshal D. Sahlins
(B) Abram Kardiner
(B) Leslie White and Julian H. Steward
(C) Ruth Benedict
(C) Elman R. Service
(D) L. H. Morgan
(D) All of the above
98. British School of diffusion insisted
101. Who opined that “Lévi-Strauss’ venture
that cultures originated in Egypt and
thereafter it has disseminated to different had been overly ambitious, meaning that
parts of the world. The proponent of this
school was available data treated with too little care.” ?
(A) Fredrick Ratzel (A) Ladislov Holy
(B) Graffon Elliot Smith (B) Arthur Maurice Hocart
(C) Fritz Graebner
(C) Edmund Leach
(D) None of the above
(D) None of the above
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SECTION – III
(Compulsory)
102. According to renowned Anthropologist- 105. A phase of life begins at the age of 50
D. N. Majumdar, who established the years in Ancient Indian Social System
Lucknow School of Indian Anthropology, when the peoples hand over their
the beginning of Indian Anthropology household responsibilities to children and
can be traced from the establishment thereafter devotes time to the God and
of Asiatic Society of Bengal that was tries to bring his senses under control
inaugurated by Sir William Jones in the through tapasya in view of focusing on
following year chastity and self-control. The phase is
called
(A) Moksha
(B) Dharma
(C) Banprasth
(D) (D) Sanyas
106. Indian Constitution has a provision in
103. National average rate of literacy was
following article which empowers the
President of India to make a list of
Scheduled tribes in consultation with
the Governor of each state. This is the
scheduled tribals in the country was
subject for parliament revisions
107. To whom the Scheduled Tribes and
104. The Palaeolithic age in India, divided Other Traditional Forest Dwellers
(Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006,
into three phases based on the nature
has authorizes to commence the process
of tools and climate change : Upper for determining nature and extent of
Palaeolithic age, Middle Palaeolithic individual or community forest rights or
age, and lower Palaeolithic age, is lasted both simultaneously ?
between the following (A) Tahsildar/Block Development
(B) State Forest Department
(C) District Collector/Deputy
Commissioner
(D) Gram Sabha
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108. The existence of this Soanian tradition 111. In India, the National Integration Council
excavated in the north-western part of
the subcontinent by are “the foundation of our national life is
(A) de Terra and T. T. Paterson
common citizenship, unity in diversity,
(B) Robert Bruce Foote
freedom of religions, secularism,
(C) Robin Dennell
(D) None of the above equality, justice-social-economic and
political, and fraternity among all
109. Some of the hill tribes, like Irulas,
Kodars, Paniyans and Kurumbas, are communities”. These were adopted in
found in some patches in Southern the year given below
part of mainland India. They represent,
according to the following ethnic element
(A) Pre-Dravidian
(B) Dravidian
(C) Proto Australoid
(D) Negrito
112. Harappa, a major site of the Indus valley
110. Brahmins of Rampura village in southern
India were studied by M. N. Srinivas civilization, culture of which existed
and on the basis of which he proposed
a concept of dominant caste. But the
excavated by Daya Ram Sahni on the
following scholar has criticized his
bank of the river
concept of dominant castes
(A) Chinao
(A) T. K. Oomen
(B) S. C. Dube (B) Sindh
(C) Both of the above (C) Satlaz
(D) None of the above (D) Ravi
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113. Who of the following renowned Indian 115. In
Anthropologists stressed upon that
small valley enclosed by sandstone hills
‘Varna is not a functional unit in case of
in the following region.
Indian society but serves as a reference
(A) Kaladgi basin of North Karnataka
(B) Hunsgi and Baichbal valley
device” in which several jatis of ascribed
(C) Orsang river in Gujarat
ritual status are placed together in a
hierarchical order’ ? (D) Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh
(A) Irawati Karve 116. Among the four Varna system who have
been regarded as “twice born” in Indian
(B) A. Beteille
pre and post-vedic period ?
(C) D. N. Majumdar
(A) Brahmins, kshatriyas and vaishyas
(D) S. C. Dube
(B) Kshatriyas, vaishyas and shudras
114. The concept of Nature-Man-Spirit (C) Brahmins and kshatriyas
Complex is based on cultural and (D) Brahmins and shudras
ecological approach in anthropology
117. According to L. P. Vidyarthi the Sacred
which explains the constant interaction
Complexes are centers of civilization
between man and nature. It is based on where pilgrims from different regions of
the study of following tribal community India interact culturally. They represent
the subculture of civilization like
(A) Lodha
(A) Semi orthodox
(B) Santhal
(B) Orthodox
(C) Maler
(C) Modern
(D) Ho
(D) All of the above
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118. The process of political mobilization 121. The Lower Palaeolithic phase in India
of the scheduled castes across caste consists of the following principal tool-
line by the upper caste people and making or cultural tradition
government’s policy of reservation wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
(A) Only Soanian tradition
and special welfare schemes for the wwwwwwwwwwwwww
scheduled castes have facilitated this (B) Both Soanian and Acheulian
process in the post-Independence traditions
period. This process of socio-economic (C) Handaxe-cleaver or biface
development among the scheduled assemblages constituting the
castes is called as Acheulian tradition
(A) Vertical mobilization
(D) Soanian tradition forming part of the
(B) Horizontal mobilization East and Southeast Asian chopper
(C) Sanskritization chopping tool tradition
(D) None of the above
122.
119. brickwork marvel with a tank measuring
groups or communities in India are often
oral and illiterate and represent the deep was found on the following site of
unique customs, rituals and folklore that Indus valley civilization
distinguish one community from another. (A) Mohenjo-Daro’
They are called as
(B) Lothal
(A) Little traditions
(C) Dholavira
(B) Great traditions
(D) Harappa
(C) Heritage
(D) None of the above
123. Following Constitutional Article provides
for the grant of special funds by
120. Some languages in India are also
the Union Government to the State
considered language isolates, meaning
Government for promoting the welfare
they have no known genealogical
of Scheduled Tribes and providing them
association. Example of language
isolates includes with a better administration
(A) Burushaski
(B) Nihali
(C) Kusunda and Vedda
(D) All of the above
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124. Due to his milestone pioneer research 127. Under which article of the Constitution
contribution the following archeologist of India a National Commission for
he was recognized as father of Indian Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
Prehistory
had been formed to investigate and
(A) De Paterson monitor the implementation of laws and
(B) Martimer Wheeler policies related to the welfare of Scheduled
(C) Robert Bruce Foote Castes and Scheduled Tribes ?
(D) None of the above
125. Since the passage of the Government
classes of the Hindu community have
been generally referred to as ‘Scheduled
128. Earliest attempt was made by
Castes’ but the term was initially coined S. C. Roy who in the history of an
by the following Indian ethnologist who published a
Journal- ‘Man in India’ and a paper
‘Anthropological Researches in India’ in
the same year
126. Tribes and castes in India are not
completely isolated and have been in
constant interaction with each other. 129. A
This interaction has led to unique
the total number of contemporary
characteristics in Indian society, called
languages in the country stands at more
as ‘tribe-caste continuum’ in some
cases of tribes and castes Iike Bhumij than hundred. How many languages
could not still be scheduled in the
studied by constitution ?
(A) Surjeet Sinha
(B) P. K. Chattopadhyaya
(D) N. K. Bose
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130. The magnitude of displacement by 132. Following is the process of carrying
further by encompassing the elements
various development projects in India
of little tradition. The process of upward
reveals that the majority of people movement of cultural traits from little
tradition where the aspects of the little
displaced and affected are tribal
tradition are generalized to greater
communities. According to the reports context
of Ministry of tribal affairs in India High (A) Parochialization
(B) Great tradition
of displaced/ affected people due to (C) Universalization
(D) None of the above
these development projects are as per
below 133.
Physical Anthropologist-B. S. Guha
the Brahmins of Bengal and Mysore
represent the characteristic features of
the following ethinic subdivision in India
(A) Alpenoid
(B) Nordics
(C) Dianeric
131. Peripheral Sites of Neolithic period (D) Armenoid
are also found in Bihar. One of the
134. Singi Talav (Western Rajasthan) was
most important sites in Bihar which a lake-shore site. This site yielded an
was related with the earliest farming assemblage of 252 artefacts of quartzite
and quartz from two levels of silty clay.
communities is The assemblage comprised choppers,
polyhedrons, bifaces, scrapers and
(A) Chopani
points. It was excavated by
(B) Paisra (A) V. N. Misra
(C) Chirand (B) H. D. Sankalia
(C) R. K. Pant and Vidula Jayaswal
(D) Brahmbe
(D) None of the above
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