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This set of Social Anthropology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Social Anthropology Set 2

Q1 | The husband comes to reside in wife’s house after marriage.
  • patrilocal residence
  • bilocal residence
  • neolocal residence
  • matrilocal residence
Q2 | The couple make a completely separate entity of their own where they live.
  • bilocal residence
  • neolocal residence
  • patrilocal residence
  • matrilocal residence.
Q3 | The newly married couple goes to live with wife’s uncle.
  • neolocal residence
  • avunculocal residence
  • bilocal residence
  • matrilocal residence.
Q4 | The --------------- word “Lavir” means husband’s brothers.
  • greek
  • french
  • latin
  • portuguese
Q5 | The ---------------- word “Sorror” means sister.
  • latin
  • greek
  • french
  • polynesian
Q6 | The wife goes to reside with her husband in husband’s house after the marriage
  • matrilocal residence
  • patrilocal residence
  • matrilineal residence
  • bilocal residence.
Q7 | The book Ancient Society is written by .
  • morgan
  • levi-strauss
  • radcliff brown
  • frazer
Q8 | A woman marries several men and lives together with all husbands and children.
  • polygynous family
  • polygamous family
  • group family
  • polyandrous family
Q9 | -------------- means the measurements of the living body including head and face.
  • crainometry
  • somatometry
  • anthropometry
  • biometry.
Q10 | The ------------- term is applied to the ceremonial kin.
  • real kin
  • actual kin
  • distant kin
  • virtual kin
Q11 | --------- placed the model of social structure in two categories i.e. the actual and generalsocial structure.
  • malinowswki
  • levi strauss
  • radcliff brown
  • tylor
Q12 | ---------- are of opinion that culture has growth in course of history.
  • evolutionists
  • structuralists
  • functionalistst
  • diffusionalists
Q13 | ------------ studied Trobri Islanders in New Guinea.
  • radcliff brown
  • malinowski
  • levi strauss
  • none of these
Q14 | ----------- defined culture as comprises inherited artifacts, goods, technical processes,ideas , habits and values.
  • malinowski
  • levi strauss
  • radcliff brown
  • tylor
Q15 | A scientific theory of culture 1944 is written by -----------
  • malinowski
  • radcliff brown
  • levi strauss
  • tylor
Q16 | James Frazer was -------------- Evolutionalist
  • british
  • french
  • american
  • german
Q17 | The Elementary Structure of Kinship written by --------
  • malinowski,
  • levi strauss
  • radcliff brown
  • tylor
Q18 | An Introduction to the science of mythology by ----------
  • levi strauss
  • radcliff brown
  • tylor
  • malinowski
Q19 | In the “Savage Mind” is written by -------
  • radcliff brown
  • tylor
  • malinowski
  • levi strauss
Q20 | -------- named anthropology as “child of Darwin”
  • tylor
  • paul broca
  • marret
  • s.c. roy
Q21 | To judge other peoples way of life in terms of own cultural view point is called -------
  • cultural relativism
  • cultural lag
  • ethnocentrism
  • cultural process
Q22 | The total tribal population in India is:
  • 10%
  • 23%
  • 3%
  • none of this
Q23 | The largest Tribal population of the world is in:
  • america
  • africa
  • india
  • australia
Q24 | Which group is the largest group of Backward Classes in India?
  • scheduled tribes
  • scheduled castes
  • muslims
  • buddhists
Q25 | Who used the word ‘aborginals’ to refer tribes in India?
  • hutton
  • sir bains
  • risly.v. elwin
  • w.j. perry