Anthropology, by comparison /
Anthropology, by comparison /
edited by Andre Gingrich and Richard G. Fox ; foreword by Marilyn Strathern.
- xx, 261 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: not giving the game away / Introduction / Comparison and anthropology's public responsibility -- Reinvigorating past comparative methods -- New methods of comparison -- Comparison and anthropology's public responsibility. Anthropology's comparative consciousness: the case of human rights / Action comparison: efforts towards a global and comparative yet local and active anthropology / Issues of relevance: anthropology and the challenges of cross-cultural comparison / Reinvigorating past comparative methods. Conditions of comparison: a consideration of two anthropological traditions in the Netherlands / Some current kinship paradigms in the light of true Crow Indian ethnography / Comparison and contextualization: reflections on South Africa / The study of historical transformation in American anthropology / New methods of comparison. Comparison and ontogeny / The notion of art: from regional to distant comparison / When ethnic majorities are 'dethroned': towards a methodology of self-reflexive, controlled macrocomparison / Marilyn Strathern -- Richard G. Fox and Andre Gingrich -- Kirsten Hastrup. James Peacock. Marit Melhuus -- Jan J. de Wolf. Emmanuel Desveaux. Adam Kuper. Richard G. Fox -- Christina Toren. Thomas Fillitz. Andre Gingrich. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. III. 8. 9. 10.
0415260531 9780415260534 041526054X 9780415260541
2001048452
Ethnology--Methodology
Cross-cultural studies
GN345 / .A579 2002
306
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: not giving the game away / Introduction / Comparison and anthropology's public responsibility -- Reinvigorating past comparative methods -- New methods of comparison -- Comparison and anthropology's public responsibility. Anthropology's comparative consciousness: the case of human rights / Action comparison: efforts towards a global and comparative yet local and active anthropology / Issues of relevance: anthropology and the challenges of cross-cultural comparison / Reinvigorating past comparative methods. Conditions of comparison: a consideration of two anthropological traditions in the Netherlands / Some current kinship paradigms in the light of true Crow Indian ethnography / Comparison and contextualization: reflections on South Africa / The study of historical transformation in American anthropology / New methods of comparison. Comparison and ontogeny / The notion of art: from regional to distant comparison / When ethnic majorities are 'dethroned': towards a methodology of self-reflexive, controlled macrocomparison / Marilyn Strathern -- Richard G. Fox and Andre Gingrich -- Kirsten Hastrup. James Peacock. Marit Melhuus -- Jan J. de Wolf. Emmanuel Desveaux. Adam Kuper. Richard G. Fox -- Christina Toren. Thomas Fillitz. Andre Gingrich. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. III. 8. 9. 10.
0415260531 9780415260534 041526054X 9780415260541
2001048452
Ethnology--Methodology
Cross-cultural studies
GN345 / .A579 2002
306