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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Veer, Peter van der (Author)
Other Authors: Gibson, Thomas, 1956- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociology > Comparative method.
Ethnology > Comparative method.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Sociologie > Inde > Methode comparative.
Ethnologie > Inde > Methode comparative.
Anthropologie > Inde > Methode comparative.
Sociologie > Chine > Methode comparative.
Ethnologie > Chine > Methode comparative.
Anthropologie > Chine > Methode comparative.
Sociology > India > Comparative method.
Ethnology > India > Comparative method.
Anthropology > India > Comparative method.
Sociology > China > Comparative method.
Ethnology > China > Comparative method.
Anthropology > China > Comparative method.
India.
China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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