Anthropology, by comparison

Description:

"The contributors to this innovative work re-examine how anthropology might resume its central task of exploring human society through comparison, but under new global conditions and using its newfound critical self-awareness. Individual entries from an international group of anthropologists re-visits, re-theorizes and re-invigorates comparison as a legitimate and fruitful enterprise. The authors explain the valuable elements of anthropological comparison and encourage an international dialogue about comparative research. Anthropology, by Comparison is a call to creative reflection on the past and productive action in the present, a challenge to anthropologists to revitalize their unique contribution to human understanding"--Publisher description.

subjects: Cross-cultural studies,  Ethnology,  Methodology,  Ethnology, methodology,  Cross-Cultural Comparison,  Ethnologie,  Méthodologie,  Études transculturelles,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Anthropology,  Cultural,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Public Policy,  Cultural Policy,  Popular Culture,  Culturele antropologie,  Vergelijkend onderzoek,  Ethnology--methodology,  Gn345 .a579 2002,  306