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

Total Questions: 100

91. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): The out of Africa model suggests that modern humans evolved in Africa.

Reason (R): Widely depressed populations of H. erectus exhibited regional anatomical variation.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following options is correct?

A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explantion of (A)
C. (A) is true but, (R) is false
D. (A) is false, but (R) is true

Correct Answer: B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explantion of (A)

92. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): All Central Indian rock shelters inhabited in pre.historic times such as those of Bhimbetka and Adamgarh present rock art.

Reason (R): During the Mesolithic period. scenes of hunting predominate amongst a multiplicity of other themes of art.

In the context of the above two statements which one of the following options is correct?

A. (A) is true and (R) is not true
B. (A) is false and (R) is true
C. (A) is false and (R) is also false
D. (A) is true and (R) is also true

Correct Answer: B. (A) is false and (R) is true

93. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): M.N. Srinivasan proposed the process of Sanskritization to explain social mobility in caste society.

Reason (R): Sanskritization term was coined after studying Coorg tribe in South India.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following options is correct?

A. (A) is true and (R) is not true
B. (A) is false and (R) is true
C. (A) is false and (R) is also false
D. (A) is true and (R) is also true

Correct Answer: D. (A) is true and (R) is also true

94. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A): Gene flow is an exchange of genetic material.

Reason (R): Gene flow is a cause of the formation of genetic isolates.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following options is correct?

A. (A) is correct and (R) is also correct
B. (A) is correct and (R) is wrong
C. (A) is wrong and (R) is correct
D. (A) is wrong and (R) is also wrong

Correct Answer: A. (A) is correct and (R) is also correct

95. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):

A. (A) is true and (R) is also true
B. (A) is false and (R) is also false
C. (A) is false and (R) is true
D. (A) is true and (R) is false

Correct Answer: D. (A) is true and (R) is false

96. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:

Books and articles often report research in straightforward manner: Here's the problem, here's the answer-that kind of thing. But many researchers know from experience that knowledge does not always come in straightforward manner. Now a professor at Rhode Island College, Terence E. Hays has reflected on the twists and turns in his fieldwork among the Ndumba in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea.

He first started studying whether different types of people (e.g., women and men) had different types of plant knowledge and whether they classified plants differently. In the course of his fieldwork, in 1972, he witnessed an initiation ceremony for 10 to 12- year-old males-a dramatic and traumatic rite of passage ceremony that included the physical trauma of nose-bleeding as well as the social traumas of 'attacks' by women and seclusion in the forest. The ceremony was full of symbolism of why the sexes needed to avoid each other. And while he collected stories and myths about plants for his research on ethnobiology, he kept uncovering themes in the stories about the danger of men associated with women.

Hays' curiosity was aroused about these ceremonies and myths. How important are myths in perpetuating cultural themes? Do other societies that have separate men's houses have similar myths? He realized when he returned home from the field that many societies have similar stories. Are these stories generally linked to initiation rites and physical segregation of the sexes? Answering these questions required comparison, so he embarked on collecting myths and folk-tales from colleagues who worked in other New Guinea Highland societies.

In the course of collecting these comparative materials, he realized he didn't have all the ethnographic information he needed, so he went back to field to get it. As Hays remarked "as an ethnographer I was continually faced with questions, how do you know it's true? But even when I could reach a (hard-won) conviction that something was true for the Ndumba, the second question awaited : how do you know it's generally true, which you can't know about comparison?”

Terence E. Hays conducted his fieldwork among which of the following communities?