Comparison In Anthropology
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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.
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.
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 Hunt Goodenough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Description And Comparison In Cultural Anthropology written by Ward Hunt Goodenough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
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.
Regimes Of Comparatism
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Author : Renaud Gagné
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-05
Regimes Of Comparatism written by Renaud Gagné and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Religion categories.
Comparatism is reflexive comparison. The regime of comparatism is the horizon of knowledge in which each individual comparison is received and judged. The aim of this book is to turn the comparative insight on itself and compare different comparative moments, exploring various frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology.
The Value Of Comparison
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Author : Peter van der Veer
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-03
The Value Of Comparison written by Peter van der Veer and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-03 with Social Science categories.
In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the broad social theories they rely on to task for their inability to question Western cultural presuppositions, demonstrating that anthropology's comparative approach provides a better means to understand societies. This capacity stems from anthropology's engagement with diversity, its fragmentary approach to studying social life, and its ability to translate difference between cultures. Through essays on topics as varied as iconoclasm, urban poverty, Muslim immigration, and social exclusion van der Veer highlights the ways that studying the particular and the unique allows for gaining a deeper knowledge of the whole without resorting to simple generalizations that elide and marginalize difference.
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.