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Pages: 407
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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.
Anthropology, by Comparison
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Richard G. Fox
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-26 - Publisher: Routledge

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Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new cas
Comparing Cultures
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Pages: 237
Authors: Michael Schnegg
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Shows how comparative ethnographic methods can be successfully used to study important human concerns in anthropology.
The Value of Comparison
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Peter van der Veer
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-03 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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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 si
The Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Charles L. Nunn
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-30 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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And when new fossils are found, such as those of the tiny humans of Flores, scientists compare these remains to other fossils and contemporary humans.