Modes of comparison theory & practice
In this book, the contributors highlight how theoretical problems have brought forth new ideas on comparison and how comparison has become pivotal in the human sciences. Many of the chapters in this interdisciplinary volume update landmark essays from the journal Comparative Studies in Society and H...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
2006
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| Colección: | The comparative studies in society and history book series
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- From the history of mentalities to anthropological history / André Burguière
- Regulation theory, post-Marxism, and the transition from the new social movements to anti-globalization and the far right / George Steinmetz
- The case for comparing histories / Raymond Grew
- On rereading an earlier essay / Raymond Grew
- Comparison and its discontents / Aram A. Yengoyan
- Frazer, Leach, and Virgil: the popularity (and unpopularity) of The Golden Bough / Mary Beard ; Afterword / Mary Beard
- Cowries and conquest: toward a subalternate quality theory of money / Chris Gregory
- Cowries and conquest: prelude to a postscript / Chris Gregory
- Global violence and nationalizing wars in Eurasia and America: the geopolitics of war in the mid-nineteenth century / Michael Geyer and Charles Bright
- Postscript: on regional transformation, globalization, and war, with some afterthoughts on comparative and global history / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer
- Testing paradigms with comparative perspectives: British India and patterns of scientific and technology transfer in the age of European global hegemony / Michael Adas
- Race, ethnicity, species, and breed: totemism and horse-breed classification in America / John Borneman
- Postscript: reflections on totemism tomorrow: horse breeds and breeding in the United States and France / John Borneman
- The cities of Avignon and Worms as expressions of European community, 1945-1975 / Beverly Heckart
- Flowers and bones: approaches to the dead in Anglo-American and Italian cemeteries / Jack Goody and Cesare Poppi
- Flowers and bones: posthumous reflections / Cesare Poppi
