How People Compare
This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why, and with what consequences, diversely situated groups of people - many of whom operate on radically different premises to professional anthropolo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)
2022.
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| Colección: | LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology Series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 On the Act of Comparison: An IntroductionMathijs PelkmansPart I: The Art of Comparing
- 2 In Defence of Bad Comparisons? Comparisons and their Motivations in Indonesia's Riau IslandsNicholas J. Long
- 3 Recognizing Uniqueness: On (Not) Comparing the World Nomad GamesMathijs Pelkmans
- 4 Totemic Comparisons; or, How Things Compose in Southeast Solomon Islands Michael W. Scott
- 5 All Alike Anyway: An Amazonian Ethics of Incommensurability Harry WalkerPart II: Comparison at Work
- 6 Principles or Pragmatics? Debt Advice as a Comparative Encounter Deborah James
- 7 Long, Hard Labours of Comparison: The Japanese Salaryman Distinguishing himself in his Totalizing Corporation Mitchell W Sedgwick
- 8 Uncomfortable Comparisons: Anthropology, Development and Mixed Feelings Katy Gardner and Julia Qermezi Huang
- 9 Implicit Comparisons, or Why it is Inevitable to Study China in Comparative Perspective Hans Steinmuller and Stephan Feuchtwang
- 10 Afterword: The Social Lives of ComparisonHarry Walker.
