UID:
almafu_9960955698902883
Format:
1 online resource (195 pages)
ISBN:
9781003283669
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1003283667
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9781000845020
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1000845028
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9781000845013
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100084501X
Series Statement:
LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology Series
Content:
This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why, and with what consequences, diversely situated groups of people - many of whom operate on radically different premises to professional anthropologists - make comparisons, above all between themselves and real or imagined others. What motivates people to compare, what techniques or logics do they employ, and what are the most likely outcomes - both intended and unintended? How do comparative practices reflect, reinforce or refuse uneven relations of power? And finally, what can a rejuvenated comparative anthropology learn from the anthropology of comparison? The volume develops a dialogue between scholars with long-term ethnographic engagement in a variety of contexts around the world and is particularly valuable reading for those interested in anthropological methodology and theory.
Note:
1 On the Act of Comparison: An IntroductionMathijs PelkmansPart I: The Art of Comparing -- 2 In Defence of Bad Comparisons? Comparisons and their Motivations in Indonesia's Riau IslandsNicholas J. Long -- 3 Recognizing Uniqueness: On (Not) Comparing the World Nomad GamesMathijs Pelkmans -- 4 Totemic Comparisons; or, How Things Compose in Southeast Solomon Islands Michael W. Scott -- 5 All Alike Anyway: An Amazonian Ethics of Incommensurability Harry WalkerPart II: Comparison at Work -- 6 Principles or Pragmatics? Debt Advice as a Comparative Encounter Deborah James -- 7 Long, Hard Labours of Comparison: The Japanese Salaryman Distinguishing himself in his Totalizing Corporation Mitchell W Sedgwick -- 8 Uncomfortable Comparisons: Anthropology, Development and Mixed Feelings Katy Gardner and Julia Qermezi Huang -- 9 Implicit Comparisons, or Why it is Inevitable to Study China in Comparative Perspective Hans Steinmuller and Stephan Feuchtwang -- 10 Afterword: The Social Lives of ComparisonHarry Walker.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-03-222997-7
Language:
English
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