Inhaltsangabe:
  • Part 1 : Comparison and Anthropology's Public Responsibility
  • Anthropology's Comparative Consciousness. The Case of Human Rights / Hastrup, Kirsten
  • Action Comparison. Efforts Towards a Global and Comparative Yet Local and Active Anthropology / Peacock, James
  • Issues of Relevance. Anthropology and the Challenges of Cross-Cultural Comparison / Melhuus, Marit
  • Part 2 : Reinvigorating Past Comparative Methods
  • Conditions of Comparison. A Consideration of Two Anthropological Traditions in the Netherlands / Wolf, Jan J. de
  • Some Current Kinship Paradigms in the Light of True Crow Indian Ethnography / Désveaux, Emmanuel
  • Comparison and Contextualization. Reflections on South Africa / Kuper, Adam
  • The Study of Historical Transformation in American Anthropology / Fox, Richard G.
  • Part 3 : New Methods of Comparison
  • Comparison and Ontogeny / Toren, Christina
  • The Notion of Art. From Regional to Distant Comparison / Fillitz, Thomas
  • When Ethnic Majorities are "Dethroned". Towards a Methodology of Self-Reflexive, Controlled Macrocomparison / Gingrich, Andre.