| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 261 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Anthropology's comparative consciousness : the case of human rights / Kirsten Hastrup -- Action comparison : efforts towards a global and comparative yet local and active anthropology / James Peacock -- Issues of relevance : anthropology and the challenges of cross-cultural comparison / Marit Melhuus -- Conditions of comparison : a consideration of two anthropological traditions in the Netherlands / Jan J. de Wolf -- Some current kinship paradigms in the light of true Crow Indian ethnography / Emmanuel Désveaux -- Comparison and contextualization : reflections on South Africa / Adam Kuper -- The study of historical transformation in American anthropology / Richard G. Fox -- Comparison and ontogeny / Christina Toren -- The notion of art : from regional to distant comparison / Thomas Fillitz -- When ethnic majorities are 'dethroned' : towards a methodology of self-reflexive, controlled macrocomparison / Andre Gingrich |
| Summary |
An international group of anthropologists take a fresh look at various neglected approaches to comparison and present new approaches that are relevant to the globalized world of the twenty first century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Methodology.
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Cross-cultural studies
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Ethnology -- Methodology
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Culturele antropologie.
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Vergelijkend onderzoek.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gingrich, André
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Fox, Richard G. (Richard Gabriel), 1939-
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| ISBN |
0585452733 |
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9780585452739 |
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0203463900 |
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9780203463901 |
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0203467930 |
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9780203467930 |
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1280403616 |
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9781280403613 |
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9786610403615 |
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6610403619 |
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9780415260541 |
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041526054X |
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9780415260534 |
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0415260531 |
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9781134509294 |
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1134509294 |
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9781134509249 |
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1134509243 |
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9781134509287 |
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1134509286 |
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