The Value of Comparison

The Value of Comparison

Peter van der Veer
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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.
Tahun:
2016
Penerbit:
Duke University Press
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
209
ISBN 10:
0822361396
ISBN 13:
9780822361398
Nama seri:
The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
File:
PDF, 6.90 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2016
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