AHSEC| CLASS 12| ANTHROPOLOGY| QUESTION PAPER - 2023| H.S. 2ND YEAR
2023
ANTHROPOLOGY
(Theory)
Full Marks: 70
Pass Marks: 21
Time: Three hours
The figures in the margin indicate
full marks for the questions.
1. Answer the following questions briefly: (any five) 1x5=5
(a) Mention a
racial criterion which can be measured and classified.
(b) Mention a
tool making technique of upper Paleolithic Solutrean culture.
(c) Name a
shifting cultivation community of North-East India.
(d) Which family
type is observed among the Khasi society of Meghalaya?
(e) What is the
etymological meaning of the term “Ecology”?
(f) Who coined
the term ‘Neolithic Revolution’?
(g) Which racial
group does the Eskimo belong to?
(h) Name the
oldest form of livelihood.
2. Choose the correct answer: (any three) 1x3=3
(a) Type-B blood
has antigen-B/ antigen – A.
(b) Chatelperonian
knife was used in Upper Palaeolithic/ Lower Palaeolithic period.
(c) The Monpas
inhabit in Tripura/ Arunachal Pradesh/ Mizoram.
(d) The Mishing
practise plough/ jhum cultivation.
(e) A family
unit formed through marriage is known as a family of orientation/ family of
procreation.
3. Answer the following questions in short: (any ten)
2x10=20
(i) What is
epicanthic fold? Mention its types.
(ii) In which
regions of the world agricultural production first began?
(iii) What is a
graver? For what purpose was it used?
(iv) What do you
understand by nuclear family and joint family?
(v) Show the
differences between Patrilocal and Matrilocal residences.
(vi) What is
food gathering economy? Mention its divisions.
(vii) Why do the
Eskimos prefer hunting as the main sources of food procurement?
(viii) What is Geo-chemical
Cycle in an ecosystem?
(ix) What is the
role of decomposers in the ecosystem?
(x) What were
the causes of ‘Itai-Itai’ diseases?
(xi) What do you
understand by a primitive or simple economy?
(xii) What is
race?
(xiii) What do
you mean by ‘hunting by disguise’?
(xiv) What is an
extended family?
(xv) What is an
Antigen?
4. Briefly answer the following questions: (any seven) 3x7=21
(a) What do you
mean by Human Genetics? Which genetic law could be derived from Mendel’s monohybrid
ratio?
(b) Give the
formulae to calculate Cephalic Index, Length-Height Index and Breadth-Height Index.
(c) In what
aspects the upper Palaeolithic industries were advanced than those of previous
periods?
(d) What are
microliths? Give two examples. In which Prehistoric period these tools were
used?
(e) What is subsistence
economy? What are its different types?
(f) What is air
pollution? What are its main causes?
(g) Why do the
anthropologists study family? Discuss briefly.
(h) Provide a brief
account on Levalloisian culture.
(i) What is bulb
of percussion and negative bulb of percussion?
(j) What is
terrace cultivation? Mention a tribe of North-East India who practises terrace
cultivation.
(k) Who rediscovered
Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance? What is purity of gametes?
(l) Briefly describe
the characteristic features of Joint family.
5. Write short notes on: (any two) 3x2=6
(a) Clustered
relationship in nuclear family
(b) Merits of
plough cultivation
(c) Food chain
and food web
(d) Importance
of ethnography in Anthropology
6. Answer the following questions: (any three) 5x3=15
(i) Who
discovered ABO blood groups? Name the different blood groups under ABO system. State
the reasons why blood group analysis is considered to be the most reliable racial
criterion?
(ii) What do you
mean by heredity? Discuss Mendel’s Law of segregation and purity of gametes.
(iii) Give a brief
account on the social organization of the Apatanis.
(iv) Provide a
comparison on producing economy and collecting economy.
(v) What is
Neolithic Revolution? Discuss.
(vi) “Family is
a universal social unit.” Discuss.
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