Thinker
McKim Marriott
McKim Marriott is central to 8 previous-year questions, spanning 2012 to 2023 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
8Questions
2012–23Years tested
I & IIPaper
6Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside McKim Marriott
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
little and great tradition 3purity and pollution 2attributional approachcaste hierarchy and rankingcivilisational analysiscivilizational analysiscognitive structurescommunity development programmecontinuity and changecultural performancecultural performancesdifferentiation and integrationempirical fieldwork traditionfactionalism and powerfield-view of the villagehierarchyholistic village studyideology
Where McKim Marriott appears in the syllabus
Every question on McKim Marriott
Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.
2023
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