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The Value of Comparison (Hardcover)
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The Value of Comparison (Hardcover)
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
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In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling
case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and
for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives
popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the
quantitative social sciences and the broad social theories they
rely on to task for their inability to question Western cultural
presuppositions, demonstrating that anthropology's comparative
approach provides a better means to understand societies. This
capacity stems from anthropology's engagement with diversity, its
fragmentary approach to studying social life, and its ability to
translate difference between cultures. Through essays on topics as
varied as iconoclasm, urban poverty, Muslim immigration, and social
exclusion van der Veer highlights the ways that studying the
particular and the unique allows for gaining a deeper knowledge of
the whole without resorting to simple generalizations that elide
and marginalize difference.
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