TY - BOOK N2 - "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"-- AB - "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"-- T1 - Comparison in anthropology :the impossible method / AU - Candea, Matei, CN - GN34.3.C58 CN - GN34.3.C58 ID - 856873 KW - Anthropology KW - Anthropology SN - 9781108465045 SN - 1108465048 SN - 9781108474603 SN - 1108474608 TI - Comparison in anthropology :the impossible method / ER -