Anthropology, by Comparison (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fox, Richard G.; Gingrich, Andre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this innovative work re-examine how anthropology might resume its central task of exploring human society through comparison, but under new global conditions and using its newfound critical self-awareness. Individual entries from an international group of anthropologists re-visits, re-theorizes and re-invigorates comparison as a legitimate and fruitful enterprise. The authors explain the valuable elements of anthropological comparison and encourage an international dialogue about comparative research. "Anthropology, by Comparison" is a call to creative reflection on the past and productive action in the present, a challenge to anthropologists to revitalize their unique contribution to human understanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134509294
• Artikelnr.: 42982483

Autorenporträt

Richard G. Fox, Andre Gingrich

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Foreword: not giving the game away
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Comparison and anthropology's public responsibility
PART II Reinvigorating past comparative methods
PART III New methods of comparison
Index

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Notes on contributors, Foreword: not giving the game away, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I Comparison and anthropology's public responsibility, PART II Reinvigorating past comparative methods, PART III New methods of comparison, Index

Rezensionen

'It is a valuable series of essays ... resting largely upon the way individual contributers draw on the collective riches of the dicipline in order to think freshly about methods and intentions. I greatly enjoyed the book because it made me lift my eyes.' - Sid Mintz, John Hopkins University

'It is a marvellous collection. It will, I am sure, help to put anthropology back on track after all our collective indulgences in various non-comparative and anti-comparative kinds of work.I like the diversity of the collection, and I especially like the editors' notion of a plurality of comparative methods to replace simplistic hard-science model that had gone before. I am sure it will be useful for both anthropologists and students alike. - - Alan Barnard, University of Edinburgh'

'It is a valuable series of essays ... resting largely upon the way individual contributers draw on the collective riches of the dicipline in order to think freshly about methods and intentions. I greatly enjoyed the book because it made me lift my eyes.' - Sid Mintz, John Hopkins University

'It is a marvellous collection. It will, I am sure, help to put anthropology back on track after all our collective indulgences in various non-comparative and anti-comparative kinds of work.I like the diversity of the collection, and I especially like the editors' notion of a plurality of comparative methods to replace simplistic hard-science model that had gone before. I am sure it will be useful for both anthropologists and students alike. - - Alan Barnard, University of Edinburgh'