BANC-102 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Solved Assignment 2021-2022
TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT
(TMA)
Course Code: BANC 102
Assignment Code: BANC 102/ASST/TMA/July 2021 and January 2022
Total Marks: 100
| Title Name |
BANC-102 Anthropology Solved Assignment 2021-2022 |
| University | IGNOU |
| Service Type | Solved Assignment (Soft copy/PDF) |
| Course | BAG(Anthropology) |
| Language | English |
| Semester | 2021-2022 Course: BA(Anthropology) |
| Session | July 2021 and January 2022 Sessions |
| Short Name | BANC-102 |
| Assignment Code | BANC 102/ASST/TMA/July 2021 and January 2022 |
| Product | Assignment of BAG(Anthropology) 2021-2022 (IGNOU) |
| Submission Date | For the learners enrolled in July for 30 April For the learners enrolled in January for 31 October |
There are three Sections in the Assignment. You have to answer all questions in all the
Sections.
Assignment – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each. 20X2= 40
a. Discuss the historical background of the development of anthropological studies
in India.
b. Describe the contemporary theories in social and cultural anthropology.
Assignment – II
Answer the following in about 250 words each. (Write Short Notes) 10X2=20
a. Institutions in social and cultural anthropology.
b. Fieldwork traditions in anthropology.
Answer the following questions in about 75 words each. 2X5=10
a. Cultural relativism
b. Historical particularism
c. Structuralism
d. Report writing
e. Kula Ring and Potlatch
Assignment – III
NOTE: For question a. please DONOT use Migration as a topic
a. Select a topic. Use the topic as an example to show the steps in preparing a synopsis.
20
b. Write a short essay in 500 words on your experience of the lockdown owing to the
pandemic COVID 19. You may write about your observations in the house, news,
media etc. 5
c. Correct the reference style and arrange them alphabetically 4+1=5
i. Culture Theory. Illinois: Waveland Press. 1972. Kaplan, David and Robert A
Manners.
ii. Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 1940. The Nuer. Oxford: The Clarendon Press
iii. Fortes. Meyer, 1969. Kinship and the Social Order. Chicago: Aldine Publishers.
iv. 1985. Harris, Marvin. Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture. Waveland
Press: Illinois
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