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The Value of Comparison: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

Autor Peter Van Der Veer, Thomas Gibson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2016
In "The Value of Comparison" Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the broad social theories they rely on to task for their inability to question Western cultural presuppositions, demonstrating that anthropology's comparative approach provides a better means to understand societies. This capacity stems from anthropology's engagement with diversity, its fragmentary approach to studying social life, and its ability to translate difference between cultures. Through essays on topics as varied as iconoclasm, urban poverty, Muslim immigration, and social exclusion van der Veer highlights the ways that studying the particular and the unique allows for gaining a deeper knowledge of the whole without resorting to simple generalizations that elide and marginalize difference.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822361589
ISBN-10: 0822361582
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures


Cuprins

Foreword / Thomas Gibson  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
Part I. The Fragment and the Whole
1. The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology  25
2. Market and Money: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory  48
Part II. Civilization and Comparison
3. Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe  61
4. The Afterlife of Images  80
Part III. Comparing Exclusion
5. Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif  107
6. Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere  130
A Short Conclusion  147
Notes  155
Bibliography  171
Index  183

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