How People Compare

This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice.

Table des matières

1 On the Act of Comparison: An Introduction
Mathijs Pelkmans
Part I: The Art of Comparing
2 In Defence of Bad Comparisons? Comparisons and their Motivations in Indonesia’s Riau Islands
Nicholas J. Long
3 Recognizing Uniqueness: On (Not) Comparing the World Nomad Games
Mathijs Pelkmans
4 Totemic Comparisons; or, How Things Compose in Southeast Solomon Islands
Michael W. Scott
5 All Alike Anyway: An Amazonian Ethics of Incommensurability
Harry Walker
Part II: Comparison at Work
6 Principles or Pragmatics? Debt Advice as a Comparative Encounter
Deborah James
7 Long, Hard Labours of Comparison: The Japanese Salaryman Distinguishing himself in his Totalizing Corporation
Mitchell W Sedgwick
8 Uncomfortable Comparisons: Anthropology, Development and Mixed Feelings
Katy Gardner and Julia Qermezi Huang
9 Implicit Comparisons, or Why it is Inevitable to Study China in Comparative Perspective
Hans Steinmüller and Stephan Feuchtwang
10 Afterword: The Social Lives of Comparison
Harry Walker

A propos de l'auteur

Mathijs Pelkmans is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
Harry Walker is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Résumé

This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mathijs Walker Pelkmans
• Collaboration: Mathijs Pelkmans (Editeur), Pelkmans Mathijs (Editeur), Harry Walker (Editeur)
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 26.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032229973
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222997-3
• Pages: 202
• Thème: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Géographie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; Social Theory, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Society and culture: general, Human Geography