List of top Anthropology Questions

What compels some members of the bands to be celibate?

Nambikwara, semi-nomads of western Brazil sanction-polygamy for their ..............

What is the importance of marriage in primitive societies, according to the author in this paragraph?

"A time when the Lahu language was still vibrant in all semantic areas".
Which of the following is not related to that 'Time'?

When was this text, "Window into vanishing world" written?

How can you conclude that the writing of the text is an old one that took place half a century ago?

How is it possible that every man has a very good chance of obtaining a wife?

Why was the boy in the story ill treated?

The action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer is known as...................

What did the animist villages resisted?

What is 'Slash and Burn'?

Arrange in sequence from the earliest to the most recent

The Political Organization of Garo tribes is run on :

Given below are two statements : one is labelled as
Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Australopithecines revealed an adaptive radiation of early hominins. Reason (R): Australopithecines show intergenic difference. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Which of the following conditions make 'Mean' misrepresentative of data ?
• [A.] Presence of outlier in the data
• [B.] Ordinal variable
• [C.] Bell shaped data distribution
• [D.] Skewed data
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Which of the following study design is employed for the study of velocity growth curve ?

'Uthal' and 'Janghi' are the two groups of :

Arrange the following sequence in descending order :
• [A.] Zygotene
• [B.] Diakinesis
• [C.] Pachytene
• [D.] Diplotene
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What will be the median of the given data of weight (in kg) ? \[ 70,\; 54,\; 45,\; 50,\; 68,\; 47,\; 75,\; 56,\; 55,\; 60,\; 72,\; 68,\; 66,\; 59,\; 57,\; 48 \]

Which of the following are not Homo erectus ?
• [A.] Peking Man
• [B.] Lucy
• [C.] Tuang child
• [D.] Black skull
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Which of the following technique is known as free flaking technique ?

Which of the following are the rules of residence ?
• [A.] Virilocal
• [B.] Uxorilocal
• [C.] Glocal
• [D.] Amitalocal
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Given below are two statements: one is labelled as
Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Inbreeding increases the homozygosity of allele at a locus. Reason (R): High homozygosity enhances genetic load. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Arrange the following books in chronological order year of publication with the earliest being first.
• [A.] Principles of Geology
• [B.] An Essay on the Principle of Population
• [C.] Essay on the Theory of the Earth
• [D.] Philosophy Zoologique
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Arrange the following books in chronological order of year of publication with the earlier one being first.
• [A.] Peasant society and culture
• [B.] Patterns of culture
• [C.] The Elementary structure of kinship
• [D.] The Andaman Islanders
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :