Value of Comparison

Informationen zum Autor Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen, Germany and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He is the author of several books, including The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India. Klappentext Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen, Germany and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He is the author of several books, including The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India. Zusammenfassung In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer highlights anthropology's continuing ability to gain insights on the whole through the comparative study of the particular and unique while critiquing the quantitative social sciences for their sweeping generalizations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword / Thomas Gibson  vii Acknowledgments  xi Introduction  1 Part I. The Fragment and the Whole 1. The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology  25 2. Market and Money: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory  48 Part II. Civilization and Comparison 3. Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe  61 4. The Afterlife of Images  80 Part III. Comparing Exclusion 5. Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif  107 6. Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere  130 A Short Conclusion  147 Notes  155 Bibliography  171 Index  183

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• Authors: Peter van der Veer, Peter (Max Planck Institute for the Van Der Veer, Peter Van Der Veer Van Der Veer, Peter van der Veer, Peter Van Der/ Gibson Veer
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780822361589
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6158-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (P; The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures; The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology