Anthropology Important Questions

Q. 1. Define Culture and its major characteristics. Also discuss how the discipline of Anthropology is
different from other social sciences.
Q. 2 What is Anthropology? What are the four fields of Anthropology, its historical developments and
recent trends?
Q. 3. Describe the theory of ‘Evolutionism’ and provide a detailed account of its critique.
Q. 4. Discuss the different theoretical perspectives on Cultural Change in Anthropology.
Q. 5. What are the main barriers to cultural change in Pakistan?
Q. 6. How is Urbanization going to affect the world in the 21st Century?
Q. 7. What are the main tools of research in Anthropology? Also discuss how the issue of Subjectivity
and Objectivity is understood in the field of social research?
Q. 8. What is Political power in traditional societies? Trace the evolution in Political systems from Bands
to modern nation-states in detail.
Q. 9. Explain the evolutionary stages of primitive economic organization.
Q. 10. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:
(a) Rural-Urban Migration
(b) Types of Family
(c) Neolithic Culture
(d) Emic and Etic
(e) Phratry and Moiety
(f) Post marital residence patterns
(g) Ethnography and Ethnology
(h) Participant Observation
(i) Acculturation and Enculturation
(j) Endogamy and Exogamy