Anthropology, by comparison / 
edited by Andre Gingrich and Richard G. Fox ; foreword by Marilyn Strathern. 
 - xx, 261 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415260531 9780415260534 041526054X 9780415260541 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001048452 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Methodology<br/>Cross-cultural studies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN345  / .A579 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306