How People Compare (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pelkmans, Mathijs; Walker, Harry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000845020
• Artikelnr.: 66917381

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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