Anthropology, by comparison /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (xx, 261 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11310648
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Other authors / contributors:Gingrich, AndreĢ.
Fox, Richard G. (Richard Gabriel), 1939-
ISBN:0585452733
9780585452739
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 twenty first century.
Other form:Print version: Anthropology, by comparison. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 0415260531
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Comparison and Anthropology's Public Responsibility
  • Chapter 1. Anthropology's Comparative Consciousness
  • Chapter 2. Action Comparison
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 3. Issues of Relevance
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Part II. Reinvigorating Past Comparative Methods
  • Chapter 4. Conditions of Comparison
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 5. Some Current Kinship Paradigms in the Light of True Crow Indian Ethnography
  • Chapter 6. Comparison and Contextualization
  • Chapter 7. The Study of Historical Transformation in American Anthropology
  • Notes
  • Part III. New Methods of Comparison
  • Chapter 8. Comparison and Ontogeny
  • Chapter 9. The Notion of Art
  • Chapter 10. When Ethnic Majorities Are 'Dethroned'
  • Index