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IGNOU MANE-03 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
SECTION- A
1. Define ethnography? Discuss the new trends in ethnography.
2. Discuss the interpretative and the feminist approach in writing ethnographies with suitable examples.
3. Deliberate on the concept of kinship as portrayed in the ethnography The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi.
4. Analyse the concepts of class, caste and power as reflected in Andre Beteilli’s work.
5. Write short notes:
a. Ethics in writing
b. Notes on love in a Tamil Family
SECTION-B
6. With reference to M.N. Srinivas’s work outline the ritual idiom of the Coorgs.
7. Discuss the concept of ‘coming of age’ as portrayed in Margaret Mead’s work.
8. Examine Annette. B. Weiner’s work among The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea and how it had an impact on gender study.
9. Discuss the ethnography India’s Changing Villages: Human Factors in Community Development.
10. Write short notes referring to the ethnographies discussed in the course:
a. T.N. Madan
b. Himalayan Polyandry
IGNOU MANE-03 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
SECTION- A
1. Define ethnography? Discuss post-modern ethnography.
2. Critically examine Karin Kapadia’s Siva and her sisters: Gender, Caste and Class in Rural South India.
3. Discuss any one of the ethnography from your course that reflects on the feminist influences in writing ethnography.
4. With reference to the ethnography Notes on love in a Tamil Familyexamine the field work concerns and the intellectual background of the work.
5. Write short notes:
a. Meyer Fortes
b. Ethics in social science research
SECTION-B
6. Outline the features of culturalists perspective in anthropology.
7. Discuss symbolism in religious functions through Geertz work.
8. Examine how Evans-Pritchard’s The Nuer provides an insight into their life ways in the political domain.
9. Why is re-study in ethnography important? Evaluate with the help of examples.
10. Write short notes referring to the ethnographies discussed in the course:
a. Traditional Remedies
b. Victor Turners work
