Question

Based on the information in the passage, which one of the following is most closely analogous to the type of folklore studies produced before the early 1970s?

• A. An anthropologist studies the implements currently used by an isolated culture, but does not investigate how the people of that culture designed and used those implements
• B. A manufacturer hires a consultant to determine how existing equipment in a plant might be modified to improve efficiency, but does not ask employees for their suggestions on how to improve efficiency
• C. A historian studies different types of documents dealing with a particular historical event, but decides not to review newspaper accounts written by journalists who lived through that event
• D. An archaeologist studies the artifacts of an ancient culture to reconstruct the life-style of that culture, but does not actually visit the site where those artifacts were unearthed

Answer 1

The correct option is A

An anthropologist studies the implements currently used by an isolated culture, but does not investigate how the people of that culture designed and used those implements

From the passage, we can understand that before 1970s, folklorists used to concentrate only on the lore-songs, tales etc and the people involved were usually ignored. The study described in option (a) is analogous to this- the anthropologist studies the objects, but does not study how people designed and used the objects.