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The Value of Comparison: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

Autor Peter Van Der Veer, Thomas Gibson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 iun 2016
In "The Value of Comparison" Peter van der Veer highlights anthropology's continuing ability to gain insights on the whole through the comparative study of the particular and unique while critiquing the quantitative social sciences for their sweeping generalizations.
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ISBN-13: 9780822361398
ISBN-10: 0822361396
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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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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