Anthropology, by Comparison

by Richard G. Fox

Book Overview

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For the most part, comparison as theory and method has been a casualty of the critique of 'grand theory' and of a growing mistrust of objectivist, hard-science methodology in the social sciences.
Today it is time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041526054X
• ISBN13: 9780415260541
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.4"