Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these questions by exploring the many ways in which, from the nineteenth century to the present day, comparative methods have been conceptualised and re-i...
Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these questions by exploring the many ways in which, from the nineteenth century to the present day, comparative methods have been conceptualised and re-invented, praised and rejected, multiplied and unified. Anthropologists today use comparisons to describe and to explain, to generalise and to challenge generalisations, to critique and to create new concepts. In this multiplicity of often contradictory aims lie both the key challenge of anthropological comparison, and also its key strength. Matei Candea maps a path through that entangled conversation, providing a ground-up re-assessment of the key conceptual issues at the heart of any form of anthropological comparison, whilst creating a bold charter for reconsidering the value of comparison in anthropology and beyond.
Matei Candea is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a former honorary editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is the author of Corsican Fragments (2010), editor of The Social after Gabriel Tarde (2010) and Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory (2018).
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Introduction
Part I. Impossibilities:
1. The impossible method
2. The garden of forking paths
3. Caesurism and heuristics
Part II. An Archetype:
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Introduction
Part I. Impossibilities:
1. The impossible method
2. The garden of forking paths
3. Caesurism and heuristics
Part II. An Archetype:
4. Comparatio
5. Two ends of lateral comparison: identity and alterity
6. Another dimension of lateral comparison: identity and intensity
7. Two ends of frontal comparison: identity, alterity, reflexivity
8. The oscillations of frontal comparison: identity, intensity, reflexivity
9. Rigour
Conclusion
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Thus, from the early twentieth century onwards, anthropologists have continued to gather together edited volumes, to publish in a mix of ‘regional’ and ‘generalist’ journals, and to expect to hear, in a ‘good’
presentation by a colleague, a ‘proper’ balance of ethnography and theory. Each of these practices, which rumble along broadly undisturbed as brittle conceptual revolutions come and go, carry their own epistemological undertow. For instance, in all of these contexts and others, anthropologists keep one eye on describing the particulars of their ‘material’ in ways which colleagues who know the area and the literature will find broadly convincing. Whatever epistemological somersaults they might be achieving on other scales of their accounts, on this basic level, anthropologists are sti... (查看原文)
New Departures in Anthropology(共14册)，
这套丛书还有
《The Subject of Virtue》《An Anthropology of Ethics》《The Concept of Action》《Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law》《Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip》
等
。
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1 有用 两手托天理三焦 2024-03-17 10:39:04 海南
每次读candea都是赏心悦目+脑洞大开啊！
3 有用 北歌 2020-05-12 00:07:59
方法到底是“多”还是“一”？Candea看来，可以有一个“The Comparative Method"，用这个方法来统合三组基本的问题(similarity-difference, things-relations, objects-subjects)，而成为一种形上的柏拉图式idea，在书中是以archetype(comparatio)=>3D archetype来表达的。方法也能“多”，虽然... 方法到底是“多”还是“一”？Candea看来，可以有一个“The Comparative Method"，用这个方法来统合三组基本的问题(similarity-difference, things-relations, objects-subjects)，而成为一种形上的柏拉图式idea，在书中是以archetype(comparatio)=>3D archetype来表达的。方法也能“多”，虽然会有内部逻辑矛盾和实际运用上的争论，但多个方法的自由组合是开放的，以一种有创造力的方式不断达到一个临时的和谐，就像聚合成一个“plateau”一样。当然了，“多”和“一”最终都是统合的，人们也会追求融贯统一的逻辑解释，“一”与“多”在一个理论和方法中的张力，或许是其生命力的来源，推动反思与更新。 (展开)
0 有用 一颗柠檬水儿 2025-12-15 11:30:03 湖北
这么好的方法书没人考虑引进吗？