Anthropology By Comparison
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Anthropology By Comparison
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Author : André Gingrich
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Anthropology By Comparison written by André Gingrich and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.
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 21st century.
Anthropology By Comparison
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Author : Richard G. Fox
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-26
Anthropology By Comparison written by Richard G. Fox and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-26 with Social Science categories.
Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For the most part, comparison as theory and method has been a casualty of the critique of 'grand theory' and of a growing mistrust of objectivist, hard-science methodology in the social sciences. Today it is time for anthropology to resume its central task of exploring humankind through comparison, using its newfound critical self-awareness under changing global conditions. In Anthropology By Comparision, an international group of prominent anthropologists re-visits, re-theorizes and re-invigorates comparison as a legitimate and fruitful enterprise. The authors explore the value of anthropological comparison and encourage an international dialogue about comparative research. While rejecting older, universalist comparative methods, these scholars take a fresh look at various subaltern and neglected approaches to comparison from their own national traditions. They then present new approaches that are especially relevant to the globalized world of the twenty-first century. Every student and practitioner of anthropology and the social sciences will find this thought-provoking volume essential reading. 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. Anthropology, by Comparison is an indispensable overview of anthropology's roots - and its future - with regard to the comparative study of humankind.
Comparison In Anthropology
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Author : Matei Candea
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019
Comparison In Anthropology written by Matei Candea and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Social Science categories.
Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.
Description And Comparison In Cultural Anthropology
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Author : Ward H. Goodenough
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1980
Description And Comparison In Cultural Anthropology written by Ward H. Goodenough and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Social Science categories.
How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study. Taking up the classic problems in the study of of social organisation, Professor Goodenough describes the major issues in the cross-cultural study of kinship and the family, revealing the kinds of constants, both formal and functional, on which such study must be based. The result is new definitions of marriage, family and parenthood for use in cross-cultural analysis and a greater understanding of this form of analysis itself. The statement on the interdependence of description and comparison in cultural anthropology and its implications for a science of culture, provides fresh insights into cross-cultural analysis for both the theoretical and the practical anthropologist.
How People Compare
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Author : Mathijs Pelkmans
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-12-26
How People Compare written by Mathijs Pelkmans and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-26 with categories.
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 anthropologists - make comparisons, above all between themselves and real or imagined others. What motivates people to compare, what techniques or logics do they employ, and what are the most likely outcomes - both intended and unintended? How do comparative practices reflect, reinforce or refuse uneven relations of power? And finally, what can a rejuvenated comparative anthropology learn from the anthropology of comparison? The volume develops a dialogue between scholars with long-term ethnographic engagement in a variety of contexts around the world and is particularly valuable reading for those interested in anthropological methodology and theory.
Description And Comparison In Cultural Anthropology
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Author : Alfred Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Description And Comparison In Cultural Anthropology written by Alfred Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Social Science categories.
The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures are intended to commemorate both the man and his work the latter being viewed as having provided an admirably broad and substantial base for anthropologists of later generations to build upon, as they have done and continue to do in diverse ways. Professor Goodenough's work, in the past and in this book particularly, emphasizes the vitality and fruitfulness of Morgan's contributions. Not only do these lectures carry forward Morgan's interests in kinship; they reflect as well his concern for comparative studies undertaken with the aim of ultimately understanding mankind. Moreover, Professor Goodenough has elucidated recent developments in the collection, analysis, and presentation of cultural data in ways that make it easier for all of us to see how his methods (in themselves specialized) can broaden and deepen our understanding of culture and of man. Morgan, himself a pioneer in method, would surely have been an attentive auditor-and discussant-at Professor Goodenough's Lectures, and in his seminars and the less formal events in which he participated while at Rochester, and to which he contributed so much. This volume is an expanded version of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures delivered at the University of Rochester, April 2 to 11, 1968. Alfred Harris was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Rochester. He served as the chair of the anthropology from 1964-1971 and he was well known for being the editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures.
Description And Comparison In Cultural Anthropology
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Author : Ward H. Goodenough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Description And Comparison In Cultural Anthropology written by Ward H. Goodenough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Ethnology categories.
This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study.
Modes Of Comparison
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Author : Aram A. Yengoyan
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2006
Modes Of Comparison written by Aram A. Yengoyan and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
"In Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, the contributors highlight how theoretical problems have brought forth new ideas on comparison and how comparison has become pivotal in the human sciences. Each of the essays questions a number of critical and contemporary issues in history, sociology, and anthropology as they relate to various ideas of comparison."--BOOK JACKET.
Comparing Cultures
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Author : Michael Schnegg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-28
Comparing Cultures written by Michael Schnegg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Shows how comparative ethnographic methods can be successfully used to study important human concerns in anthropology.
Comparison
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Author : Rita Felski
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-06-15
Comparison written by Rita Felski and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary studies and other disciplines within the humanities. Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the cultural flows and circulation of past and present globalization. How do scholars make ethically and politically responsible comparisons without assuming that their own values and norms are the standard by which other cultures should be measured? Comparison expands upon a special issue of the journal New Literary History, which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies complement the original ten pieces. The work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Ania Loomba, Haun Saussy, Linda Gordon, Walter D. Mignolo, Shu-mei Shih, and Pheng Cheah are included with contributions by anthropologists Caroline B. Brettell and Richard Handler. Historical periods discussed range from the early modern to the contemporary and geographical regions that encompass the globe. Ultimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research.