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Author Hibberd, Jack, 1940-

Title Comparative anthropology / edited by Ladislav Holy
Edition Second (revised ) edition
Published Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Blackwell, 1987

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Description viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Yackandandah playscripts. Series 3
Yackandandah playscripts. Series III.
Contents 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
Analysis Social anthropology Research Methodology
Notes Papers of the Symposium on Comparative Method in Social Anthropology, held at the University of St. Andrews, December 15-18, 1983
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Ethnology -- Comparative method -- Congresses.
Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnology -- Comparative method -- Congresses.
Ethnology -- Comparative method.
Ethnology -- Methodology -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Holý, Ladislav.
Holý, Ladislav.
University of St. Andrews.
Symposium on Comparative Method in Social Anthropology (1983 : University of St. Andrews)
LC no. 86026380
ISBN 0631151559
9780631151555
Other Titles Power of romance
Power of romance