Folklore Fieldwork, Documentation and Archiving Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Both statements are correct (option B). The training of a folklorist needs wide experience in the field, the library, the archive and the museum, and yet many people think they can understand folklore after a five-minute conversation, so the reason is a true remark on the lack of respect for the discipline.

Options A and C reject one of the two, and option D calls the reason partly correct, but there is nothing to qualify: both are plain true statements of fact.

Answer: C

The correct matching is the Folklore Resources and Research Centre with Palayamkottai (4), the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts with New Delhi (3), the Lok Kala Parishad with Bhopal (1) and the Regional Resource Centre for Folk Performing Arts with Udupi (2): the code 4 3 1 2, option C.

Options A, B and D each send IGNCA away from New Delhi or put the Lok Kala Parishad outside Bhopal, so they place at least two of the institutions in the wrong city.

Answer: B

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts is situated in New Delhi, on Janpath, and it was set up by the Government of India in 1987 as a centre for research, documentation and dissemination of the arts. It is not in Chennai, Mumbai or Kolkata, though those cities have their own national arts institutions. So B is correct. The centre has divisions for research and publication, a library and an archive of audio and visual material, and a programme of folk and tribal arts, which is why folklorists often refer to it.

Answer: B

In the MLA style sheet, a book is cited by the author's last name and first name, then the title of the book, the place of publication, the publisher and the year, which is the order in option B (the older MLA form, with the place and publisher before the year). Option A begins with the title and puts the author later, option C begins with the year, and option D puts the year before the title, none of which is the MLA sequence. So B is correct.

Answer: B

The keyed choice is that (A) is correct and (R) is partially correct. The folklorist's work is not merely the collection of texts but also the study of the context of particular performances, so the assertion is correct. The reason says the folklorist must attend performances, record and observe their aspects and hold interviews, which is right, but it adds that we may or may not take the audience into consideration, which is not accepted, as the audience is part of the context. So the reason is only partly correct.

Answer: D

The case study method is a qualitative method: it studies one person, family, group or community in depth, using interviews and observation, to understand it as a whole. A quantitative method rests on numbers and statistics, a survey method collects limited data from many people, and ethnography is a wider approach of fieldwork on a culture of which a case study can be a part. Of the four, the qualitative method describes it best. The answer is qualitative method.

Answer: D

Both statements are wrong. Ethnography is the description of a people and their way of life, based on fieldwork, and it is not the description of the physical features of the earth, which is physical geography. The reason is also wrong, because the earth is a planet and is not a thing that comprises human races, so the second statement does not even correct the first. The word ethnography comes from the Greek ethnos, a people, and graphein, to write. The answer is option D, both are wrong, as in the key.

Answer: C

Assertion (A) is false: the study of folklore is not static, because folklore is always changing, with variants in each performance and new items added, and folklorists study its process. Reason (R) is a correct statement, since a folklore archive is a depository of verbal and non-verbal genres, but it does not explain the false assertion. The key is option C, (A) false and (R) not the correct explanation. Options A and D treat (A) as true, and option B treats both as correct.

Answer: B

In a research process the researcher first surveys the literature, to learn what is known and where the gap lies, then collects data, then analyses it and last writes the report. Option B gives that order. Option A starts with data collection before the review, option C puts data collection after the report and option D starts with the report, which is the last step of any study. The answer is literature survey, data collection, analysis and report writing.

Answer: B

The survey method is a quantitative approach (i), and the hermeneutic method is a textual approach (iii), the ethnographic method is a field approach (ii), and the remaining pair, the experimental method, is paired in the keyed answer with iv, the qualitative approach. That gives a-i, b-iv, c-iii, d-ii, option B. Option A pairs the survey method with the field approach, C pairs it with the qualitative approach, and D pairs it with the textual approach, so each of them breaks the survey-quantitative pair.