Comparison in Anthropology : The Impossible Method Hardback
by Matei (University of Cambridge) Candea
Part of the New Departures in Anthropology series
Hardback
Description
Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons?
What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved?
What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another?
This book answers these questions by exploring the many ways in which, from the nineteenth century to the present day, comparative methods have been conceptualised and re-invented, praised and rejected, multiplied and unified.
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 re-assessment 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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:404 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 17 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2018
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- ISBN:9781108474603
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:404 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 17 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108474603
