Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make
comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how
might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison
better than another? This book answers these questions by exploring
the many ways in which, from the nineteenth century to the present
day, comparative methods have been conceptualised and re-invented,
praised and rejected, multiplied and unified. Anthropologists today
use comparisons to describe and to explain, to generalise and to
challenge generalisations, to critique and to create new concepts.
In this multiplicity of often contradictory aims lie both the key
challenge of anthropological comparison, and also its key strength.
Matei Candea maps a path through that entangled conversation,
providing a ground-up re-assessment of the key conceptual issues at
the heart of any form of anthropological comparison, whilst
creating a bold charter for reconsidering the value of comparison
in anthropology and beyond.
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