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IGNOU MAN-01 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
SECTION- A
1. Discuss the intellectual foundations for the emergence of a science of society. Discuss the history and growth of social anthropology in India.
2. Define family. Critically discuss the changing dynamics in a family.
3. Discuss structuralism with reference to Claude Lévi-Strauss’s work.
4. Discuss culture and personality school of thought.
5. Write short notes:
a. Fieldwork
b. Feminism
SECTION-B
6. Give an overview of informal specialists found in different societies.
7. Write a note on the British and the German diffusionist schools.
8. Discuss the various ways by which resolution of conflicts is accomplished in a society.
9. What is shifting cultivation? Discuss its merits and demerits.
10. Write short notes:
a. Victor Turner
b. Potlatch and Kula ring
IGNOU MAN-01 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
SECTION- A
1. Discuss how social anthropology developed as a subject. Deliberate on its scope and future perspectives.
2. Define kinship. Critically discuss the changing dynamics in kinship.
3. Discuss functionalism with reference to Malinowski’s work.
4. Address how feminist theories have been used in anthropological works.
5. Write short notes:
a. Structural-Functional approach
b. Alliance theory
SECTION-B
6. Write a note on rituals and symbolism.
7. Give an overview of State and Stateless societies with suitable examples.
8. Discuss in brief the main theories in economic anthroplogy.
9. Discuss the traditional economic systems with examples.
10. Write short notes:
a. Sanskritisation
b. Types of marriages






