edited by Andre Gingrich and Richard G. Fox ; foreword by Marilyn Strathern.
New York :
Routledge,
2002.
1 online resource (xx, 261 pages) :
illustrations, map
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anthropology's comparative consciousness : the case of human rights / Kirsten Hastrup -- Action comparison : efforts towards a global and comparative yet local and active anthropology / James Peacock -- Issues of relevance : anthropology and the challenges of cross-cultural comparison / Marit Melhuus -- Conditions of comparison : a consideration of two anthropological traditions in the Netherlands / Jan J. de Wolf -- Some current kinship paradigms in the light of true Crow Indian ethnography / Emmanuel Désveaux -- Comparison and contextualization : reflections on South Africa / Adam Kuper -- The study of historical transformation in American anthropology / Richard G. Fox -- Comparison and ontogeny / Christina Toren -- The notion of art : from regional to distant comparison / Thomas Fillitz -- When ethnic majorities are 'dethroned' : towards a methodology of self-reflexive, controlled macrocomparison / Andre Gingrich.
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An international group of anthropologists take a fresh look at various neglected approaches to comparison and present new approaches that are relevant to the globalized world of the twenty first century.
OverDrive, Inc.
Anthropology, by comparison.
0415260531
Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnology-- Methodology.
Ethnologie-- Méthodologie.
Études transculturelles.
Cross-cultural studies.
Culturele antropologie.
Ethnology-- Methodology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.