Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method

ISBN-13: 9781108465045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 404 str.

Matei Candea

Opis

Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.

Recenzje

'Matei Candea's book, Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method, is a fascinating example of how complex, and how intellectually fortifying, the survival-revival genre can be. … As a historical primer on how anthropologists compare, and when they decide not to, the book has no rivals. I say this knowing that the publication of books and essays on comparison is endless … Candea re-articulates everything the comparative method aspires to but cannot attain. … Comparison in Anthropology is an exemplary blend of preaching and practice. Read it. Teach it. Object to it. And enjoy its incomparable effects.' Andrew Shryock, History and Anthropology

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Impossibilities: 1. The impossible method; 2. The garden of forking paths; 3. Caesurism and heuristics; Part II. An Archetype: 4. Comparatio; 5. Two ends of lateral comparison: identity and alterity; 6. Another dimension of lateral comparison: identity and intensity; 7. Two ends of frontal comparison: identity, alterity, reflexivity; 8. The oscillations of frontal comparison: identity, intensity, reflexivity; 9. Rigour; Conclusion.