BANC-102 EM 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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BANC 102: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT
(TMA)
Course Code: BANC 102
Assignment Code: BANC 102/ASST/TMA/July 2025 and January 2026

Assignment – I Answer the following in about 500 words each.

1. Discuss the historical background of the development of Social and Cultural anthropology.
2. Describe fieldwork tradition in anthropology.

Assignment – II Answer the following in about 250 words each. (Write Short Notes)

1. Discuss the structural-functionalism.
2. Write a note on kinship, family and marriage.

Answer the following questions in about 75 words each.

1. Society
2. Relationship between anthropology and economics
3. Symbolic approach
4. Social Stratification
5. Margaret Mead

Assignment – III

1. Select either topic that deals with urban ethnography. Write the steps for preparing a synopsis emphasising on the significance of your study, unit of study, methods, tools and techniques.
2. Correct the reference style, arrange them alphabetically and identify which one are from an edited book
3. Srinivas, M. N. 2002. in Srinivas, A. M. Shah, and E. A. Ramaswamy (eds). The Fieldworker and the Field: Problems and Challenges in Sociological Investigation. Press. pp. 19-28. Delhi: Oxford University ‘The Fieldworker and the Field: A Village in Karnataka’,
4. Oxford: The Clarendon Press Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 1940. The Nuer.

iii. Fortes. Meyer, 1969. Kinship and the Social Order. Aldine Publishers. Chicago:

2015. Channa, S.M, 2015. In V.K. Srivastava (edited). Experiences of Fieldwork And Writing (221-237) Serials Publication. Getting the Writer’s Cramps! Making the Transition from Modernism to Post-modernism in Writing Anthropology. New Delhi: 4
2016. Cultural anthropology (7 th ed.) Mead, M. 1964. Anthropology: A human science. New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc. Miller, B.D. 2012. Pearson.