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Comparison in Anthropology

The Impossible Method

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvMatei Candea

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-11-15
Mått152 x 228 x 21 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Departures in Anthropology
Antal sidor404
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108465045

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Introduction; Part I. Impossibilities: 1. The impossible method; 2. The garden of forking paths; 3. Caesurism and heuristics; Part II. An Archetype: 4. Comparatio; 5. Two ends of lateral comparison: identity and alterity; 6. Another dimension of lateral comparison: identity and intensity; 7. Two ends of frontal comparison: identity, alterity, reflexivity; 8. The oscillations of frontal comparison: identity, intensity, reflexivity; 9. Rigour; Conclusion.

'This witty, mind-opening and intellectually generous book is a classic in the making. Candea combines a breathtaking sweep of comparative practice and the constantly self-eclipsing waves of anthropological enquiry with a penetrating discernment of the theoretical passions that shape it and how anthropologists distinctively keep them in play. The comparative method will never be the same. It is also a gripping read!' Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge