This article argues that doing anthropology means comparing anthropologies. Comparison is not just our primary analytic tool, it is also our raw material and our ultimate grounding, since what we compare are always and necessarily, in one form or other, comparisons. If, as Marilyn Strathern suggests, culture consists in the way people draw analogies between different domains of their worlds, then every culture is a multidimensional process of comparison. Likewise, if anthropology studies culture through culture, then, following Roy Wagner, whatever operations characterize our investigations must also be general properties of culture. Intracultural relations, or internal comparisons, and intercultural relations, or external comparisons, are ...
Dissertação de Mestrado Erasmus Mundus: Filosofias Francesa e Alemã no Espaço Europeu apresentada à ...
This short contribution is a response to Robert Prus' commentary paper "Ethnographic Comparisons, Co...
This article deals with the methodological, theoretical and ethical basis of anthropological knowled...
En el presente artículo reflexionamos sobre los alcances y límites de la comparación en antropología...
Este artigo sustenta que fazer antropologia é comparar antropologias. A comparação não é apenas noss...
<p><em>En la antropología social y/o cultural actual, la comparación tiende a ser considerada como ...
En la antropología sociocultural actual, la comparación tiende a ser considerada como un recurso aux...
El artículo realiza una revisión de las propuestas de métodos de investigación, científicos y hermen...
By Isaac Gagne Comparisons are invidious. I encountered this statement early in my anthropological t...
El propósito en este artículo es fundamentar la crítica a una forma de concebir el conocimiento antr...
This paper attempts to understand comparison as an intellectual endeavour in a non-European cultural...
Necessity, purpose, distancing the over-familiar, familiarizing the distant, making absences visible...
‘Bad comparisons’ premised on the assumption of equivalence between two disparate entities have long...
‘Bad comparisons’ premised on the assumption of equivalence between two disparate entities have long...
Divergent but complementary approaches emerge out of the 80s to circumscribe anthropologists’ rela...
Dissertação de Mestrado Erasmus Mundus: Filosofias Francesa e Alemã no Espaço Europeu apresentada à ...
This short contribution is a response to Robert Prus' commentary paper "Ethnographic Comparisons, Co...
This article deals with the methodological, theoretical and ethical basis of anthropological knowled...
En el presente artículo reflexionamos sobre los alcances y límites de la comparación en antropología...
Este artigo sustenta que fazer antropologia é comparar antropologias. A comparação não é apenas noss...
<p><em>En la antropología social y/o cultural actual, la comparación tiende a ser considerada como ...
En la antropología sociocultural actual, la comparación tiende a ser considerada como un recurso aux...
El artículo realiza una revisión de las propuestas de métodos de investigación, científicos y hermen...
By Isaac Gagne Comparisons are invidious. I encountered this statement early in my anthropological t...
El propósito en este artículo es fundamentar la crítica a una forma de concebir el conocimiento antr...
This paper attempts to understand comparison as an intellectual endeavour in a non-European cultural...
Necessity, purpose, distancing the over-familiar, familiarizing the distant, making absences visible...
‘Bad comparisons’ premised on the assumption of equivalence between two disparate entities have long...
‘Bad comparisons’ premised on the assumption of equivalence between two disparate entities have long...
Divergent but complementary approaches emerge out of the 80s to circumscribe anthropologists’ rela...
Dissertação de Mestrado Erasmus Mundus: Filosofias Francesa e Alemã no Espaço Europeu apresentada à ...
This short contribution is a response to Robert Prus' commentary paper "Ethnographic Comparisons, Co...
This article deals with the methodological, theoretical and ethical basis of anthropological knowled...