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The value of comparison / Peter van der Veer ; with a foreword by Thomas Gibson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Veer, Peter van der, author.
- Series:
- Lewis Henry Morgan lectures.
- The lewis henry morgan lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--China--Comparative method.
- Anthropology.
- Ethnology--China--Comparative method.
- Ethnology.
- Sociology--China--Comparative method.
- Sociology.
- Anthropology--India--Comparative method.
- Ethnology--India--Comparative method.
- Sociology--India--Comparative method.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The fragment and the whole
- The comparative advantage of anthropology
- Market and money: a critique of rational choice theory
- Civilization and comparison
- Keeping the Muslims out: concepts of civilization, civility, and civil society in India, China, and Western Europe
- The afterlife of images
- Comparing exclusion
- Lost in the mountains: notes on diversity in the Southeast Asian mainland massif
- Who cares? Care arrangements and sanitation for the poor in India and elsewhere.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-7422-6
- OCLC:
- 1152651031
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