Modes of comparison : theory & practice / Aram A. Yengoyan, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yengoyan, Aram A.

Series:

Comparative studies in society and history book series

The comparative studies in society and history book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

x, 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]

Contents:

From the history of mentalities to anthropological history / André Burguière

Regulation theory, post-Marxism, and the transition from the new social movements to anti-globalization and the far right / George Steinmetz

The case for comparing histories / Raymond Grew

On rereading an earlier essay / Raymond Grew

Comparison and its discontents / Aram A. Yengoyan

Frazer, Leach, and Virgil: the popularity (and unpopularity) of The Golden Bough / Mary Beard ; Afterword / Mary Beard

Cowries and conquest: toward a subalternate quality theory of money / Chris Gregory

Cowries and conquest: prelude to a postscript / Chris Gregory

Global violence and nationalizing wars in Eurasia and America: the geopolitics of war in the mid-nineteenth century / Michael Geyer and Charles Bright

Postscript: on regional transformation, globalization, and war, with some afterthoughts on comparative and global history / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer

Testing paradigms with comparative perspectives: British India and patterns of scientific and technology transfer in the age of European global hegemony / Michael Adas

Race, ethnicity, species, and breed: totemism and horse-breed classification in America / John Borneman

Postscript: reflections on totemism tomorrow: horse breeds and breeding in the United States and France / John Borneman

The cities of Avignon and Worms as expressions of European community, 1945-1975 / Beverly Heckart

Flowers and bones: approaches to the dead in Anglo-American and Italian cemeteries / Jack Goody and Cesare Poppi

Flowers and bones: posthumous reflections / Cesare Poppi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0472099183

0472069187

OCLC:

62109937

Publisher Number:

9780472099184

9780472069187