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Comparison in anthropology : the impossible method / Matei Candea, University of Cambridge

Candea, Matei [Verfasser]

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019

xiii, 392 Seiten : Illustrationen

New departures in anthropology

The impossible method -- The garden of forking paths -- Caesurism and heuristics -- Comparatio -- Two ends of lateral comparison: identity and alterity -- Another dimension of lateral comparison: identity and intensity -- Two ends of frontal comparison: identity, alterity, reflexivity -- The oscillations of frontal comparison: identity, intensity, reflexivity -- Rigour

978-1-108-47460-3 ; 1-108-47460-8 ; 978-1-108-46504-5 ; 1-108-46504-8

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Kulturanthropologie  Sozialanthropologie  Ethnomethodologie  Vergleich 

"Anthropologists today use comparisons to describe and to explain, to generalise and to challenge generalisations, to critique and to create new concepts. In this multiplicity of often contradictory aims lie both the key challenge of anthropological comparison, and also its key strength. Matei Candea maps a path through that entangled conversation, providing a ground-up reassessment of the key conceptual issues at the heart of any form of anthropological comparison, whilst creating a bold charter for reconsidering the value of comparison in anthropology and beyond