MCQ Bank
English, French and Spanish are _________ with reference to language families.
- A) Sister languages
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Which of the following production system depends primarily on domesticated animals for food?
- A) Pastoralism
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Physical Anthropology is the study of humans from a ____________ perspective.
- A) Biological
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An anthropologist is interested to explore the changing patterns of marriage over the time. Which source of information will be focused by him?
- A) Document Analysis
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Which analysis is carried out by linguists to understand the language structures and its underlying rules at a given point in time?
- A) Synchronic analysis
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Which of the following theory is influenced by cultural relativism and ethno-science?
- A) Post modernism
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The earliest form of humanity survival was on fruits and nuts, it falls under which development stage?
- A) Lower Savagery
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The function of kinships that provide social solidarity and continuity within the same generation is called:
- A) Horizontal function
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Which one of the following is an ambivalent system, which submerges the nuclear family into a larger kinship group?
- A) Iroquois
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Which one of the following theories is criticized for being overly theoretical and not easily verifiable through empirical evidence?
- A) Structuralism
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Particular features of a culture are known as ______________
- A) Cultural traits
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The bilateral system of loose kinship networks is formed by all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Clan
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Societies based on organic solidarity have all the characteristics EXCEPT:
- A) Common interest in general
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Functionalism focused on_______ different parts of contemporary cultures work for the well being of the individual and the
- A) Society
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Clan composed of which kind of groups that claim descent, but they are unable to trace all their genealogical links?
- A) Unilineal groups
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Close system of communication is associated with:
- A) Animals
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According to anthropologists, language is random in nature because of its:
- A) Diversity
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Which of the following kinship organization divide a society into two halves?
- A) Moieties
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Functionalism focused on understanding culture from the viewpoint of ___________.
- A) Natives
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All of the following are important elements to conduct field work EXCEPT:
- A) Compare and contrast the culture
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