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The Value of Comparison /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Veer, Peter van der (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gibson, Thomas, 1956- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The fragment and the whole
  • The comparative advantage of anthropology
  • Market and money: a critique of rational choice theory
  • Civilization and comparison
  • Keeping the Muslims out: concepts of civilization, civility, and civil society in India, China, and Western Europe
  • The afterlife of images
  • Comparing exclusion
  • Lost in the mountains: notes on diversity in the Southeast Asian mainland massif
  • Who cares? Care arrangements and sanitation for the poor in India and elsewhere.