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CSS Anthropology Past Paper 2019

CSS Anthropology 2019 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. It has 7 questions.

Marks
100
Time
3 hours
Questions
7

How to attempt: Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.

Questions

Question 1 (Part I) is the paper's MCQs, which are not reproduced here.

  1. Q. 2
    Discuss the fields and branches of anthropology.
    (20)
  2. Q. 3
    Define primitive economic organization. Discuss the scope and relevance of economic organization with anthropology.
    (20)
  3. Q. 4
    Discuss various conditions and factors responsible for social change and development in simple societies.
    (20)
  4. Q. 5
    Give a distinction between technique, method and methodology. What tools of data collection are usually used in anthropology?
    (20)
  5. Q. 6
    Discuss in detail family institution and its various types on the basis of structure, blood relation, marriage, residence and succession.
    (20)
  6. Q. 7
    Discuss and compare various forms of divine religions with other world religion including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
    (20)
  7. Q. 8
    Discuss in detail the process of Social Control in primitive societies.
    (20)
  1. Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
  2. Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
  3. All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
  4. Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q.Paper.
  5. No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
  6. Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.

FPSC's wording, numbering and marks, as printed. Obvious misprints (a garbled word, a broken number) are corrected; everything else is kept as FPSC printed it.

The written exam starts with the MPT

Only candidates who pass the MCQ screening test (MPT) sit the written papers. Practice the 200-question MPT under exam conditions first.