Title
Comparison in anthropology : the impossible method / Matei Candea.
ISBN
9781108465045 (paperback)
1108465048 (paperback)
9781108474603 (hardcover)
1108474608 (hardcover)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 392 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
GN34.3.C58 C36 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
930.1
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
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.
