| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 261 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Methodology.
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Ethnology -- Methodology. |
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Cross-cultural studies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gingrich, André.
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Fox, Richard G. (Richard Gabriel), 1939-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Anthropology, by comparison. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 0415260531 (DLC) 2001048452 (OCoLC)47869992 |
| ISBN |
0585452733 (electronic book) |
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9780585452739 (electronic book) |
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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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041526054X (Paper) |
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0415260531 (Cloth) |
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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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