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Anthropology, by comparison / edited by Andre Gingrich and Richard G. Fox ; foreword by Marilyn Strathern.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: xx, 261 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415260531
  • 9780415260534
  • 041526054X
  • 9780415260541
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 21
LOC classification:
  • GN345 .A579 2002
Contents:
Foreword: not giving the game away / Marilyn Strathern -- Introduction / Richard G. Fox and Andre Gingrich -- Comparison and anthropology's public responsibility -- Reinvigorating past comparative methods -- New methods of comparison -- Pt. I. Comparison and anthropology's public responsibility. 1. Anthropology's comparative consciousness: the case of human rights / Kirsten Hastrup. 2. Action comparison: efforts towards a global and comparative yet local and active anthropology / James Peacock. 3. Issues of relevance: anthropology and the challenges of cross-cultural comparison / Marit Melhuus -- Pt. II. Reinvigorating past comparative methods. 4. Conditions of comparison: a consideration of two anthropological traditions in the Netherlands / Jan J. de Wolf. 5. Some current kinship paradigms in the light of true Crow Indian ethnography / Emmanuel Desveaux. 6. Comparison and contextualization: reflections on South Africa / Adam Kuper. 7. The study of historical transformation in American anthropology / Richard G. Fox -- Pt. III. New methods of comparison. 8. Comparison and ontogeny / Christina Toren. 9. The notion of art: from regional to distant comparison / Thomas Fillitz. 10. When ethnic majorities are 'dethroned': towards a methodology of self-reflexive, controlled macrocomparison / Andre Gingrich.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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