Anthropology, by Comparison

by Fox,Richard G.; Fox,Richard G.

• ISBN13: 9780415260541
• ISBN10: 041526054X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-03-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The contributors to this innovative work re-examine how anthropology might resume its central task of exploring human society through comparison, but under new global conditions and using its newfound critical self-awareness. Individual entries from an international group of anthropologists re-visits, re-theorizes and re-invigorates comparison as a legitimate and fruitful enterprise. The authors explain the valuable elements of anthropological comparison and encourage an international dialogue about comparative research.Anthropology, by Comparisonis a call to creative reflection on the past and productive action in the present, a challenge to anthropologists to revitalize their unique contribution to human understanding.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Comparison and Anthropology's Public Responsibility	p. 25
Anthropology's Comparative Consciousness	p. 27
Action Comparison	p. 44
Bibliography	p. 68
Issues of Relevance	p. 70
Notes	p. 88
Bibliography	p. 90
Reinvigorating Past Comparative Methods	p. 93
Conditions of Comparison	p. 95
Bibliography	p. 119
Some Current Kinship Paradigms in the Light of True Crow Indian Ethnography	p. 124
Comparison and Contextualization	p. 143
The Study of Historical Transformation in American Anthropology	p. 167
Notes	p. 183
New Methods of Comparison	p. 185
Comparison and Ontogeny	p. 187
The Notion of Art	p. 204
When Ethnic Majorities Are 'Dethroned'	p. 225
Index	p. 249
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