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- catalog abstract ""The contributors to this innovative work re-examine how anthropology might resume its central task of exploring human society through comparison, but under new global conditions and using its newfound critical self-awareness. Individual entries from an international group of anthropologists re-visits, re-theorizes and re-invigorates comparison as a legitimate and fruitful enterprise. The authors explain the valuable elements of anthropological comparison and encourage an international dialogue about comparative research. 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"--Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b12519134.
- catalog contributor b12519135.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""The contributors to this innovative work re-examine how anthropology might resume its central task of exploring human society through comparison, but under new global conditions and using its newfound critical self-awareness. Individual entries from an international group of anthropologists re-visits, re-theorizes and re-invigorates comparison as a legitimate and fruitful enterprise. The authors explain the valuable elements of anthropological comparison and encourage an international dialogue about comparative research. 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"--Publisher description.".
- catalog description "Anthropology's comparative consciousness : the case of human rights / Kirsten Hastrup -- Action comparison : efforts towards a global and comparative yet local and active anthropology / James Peacock -- Issues of relevance : anthropology and the challenges of cross-cultural comparison / Marit Melhuus -- Conditions of comparison : a consideration of two anthropological traditions in the Netherlands / Jan J. de Wolf -- Some current kinship paradigms in the light of true Crow Indian ethnography / Emmanuel Désveaux -- Comparison and contextualization : reflections on South Africa / Adam Kuper -- The study of historical transformation in American anthropology / Richard G. Fox -- Comparison and ontogeny / Christina Toren -- The notion of art : from regional to distant comparison / Thomas Fillitz -- When ethnic majorities are 'dethroned' : towards a methodology of self-reflexive, controlled macrocomparison / Andre Gingrich.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 261 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415260531".
- catalog identifier "041526054X (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "306 21".
- catalog subject "Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Methodology.".
- catalog subject "GN345 .A579 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Anthropology's comparative consciousness : the case of human rights / Kirsten Hastrup -- Action comparison : efforts towards a global and comparative yet local and active anthropology / James Peacock -- Issues of relevance : anthropology and the challenges of cross-cultural comparison / Marit Melhuus -- Conditions of comparison : a consideration of two anthropological traditions in the Netherlands / Jan J. de Wolf -- Some current kinship paradigms in the light of true Crow Indian ethnography / Emmanuel Désveaux -- Comparison and contextualization : reflections on South Africa / Adam Kuper -- The study of historical transformation in American anthropology / Richard G. Fox -- Comparison and ontogeny / Christina Toren -- The notion of art : from regional to distant comparison / Thomas Fillitz -- When ethnic majorities are 'dethroned' : towards a methodology of self-reflexive, controlled macrocomparison / Andre Gingrich.".
- catalog title "Anthropology, by comparison / edited by Andre Gingrich and Richard G. Fox ; foreword by Marilyn Strathern.".
- catalog type "text".