Description, generalization and comparison : two paradigms / Ladislav Holy -- Summer's days and salad days : the coming of age of anthropology? / Mark Hobart -- Comparison as the search for continuity / David Parkin -- Translation as a creative process : the power of the name / Joanna Overing -- History, culture and the comparative method : a West African puzzle / J.D.Y. Peel -- Anthropological comparison / R.H. Barnes -- Caste in Bali and India : levels of comparison / Leo Howe -- Pastoralism and the comparative method / Philip Burnham -- 'African ethnogenesis' : limits to the comparability of ethnic phenomena / Richard Fardon -- Khoisan kinship : regional comparison and underlying structures / Alan Barnard -- The use of ethnographic parallels in interpreting Upper Palaeolithic rock art / Robert Layton ; with an appendix by Malcolm Smith
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Papers of the Symposium on Comparative Method in Social Anthropology, held at the University of St. Andrews, December 15-18, 1983