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VERLAGSTEXT: / / 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 reassessment 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. / / AUS DEM INHALT: / / Preface: What We Know in our Elbows xi / Introduction 1 / Our Impossible Method 1 / Too General, Too Specific 4 / The Pinch of Salt 7 / A Roadmap to the Book 12 / A Negative-Space Ethnography 18 / / Part I / Impossibilities 27 / 1 The Impossible Method 29 / Introduction: On Seeing One Comparative Method 29 / Problems of Mapping 34 / Problems of Communication 40 / Problems of Purpose 47 / Conclusion: Prom Problems to Impossibility 52 / / 2 The Garden of Forking Paths 53 / Introduction: On Seeing Two Comparative Methods 53 / Fork 1, The Comparative Method vs Naive Comparisons: The Birth of an Impossible Method 56 / Fork 2. The Historical Method vs the Comparative Method: A Boasian Crisis 72 / Fork 3. Comparison vs Description: Varieties of Functionalist Hope 78 / Fork 4. Topology vs Typology: Structuralist Alternatives 96 / Fork 5. The Frontal vs the Lateral: Interpretivism and its Heirs 119 / Fork 6. Old Worries, New Hopes: Anthropological Comparatisms Today 133 / Conclusion: The Shadow of Two Forms 144 / / 3 Caesurism and Heuristics 148 / Introduction: On Seeing Many Comparative Methods 148 / Making a Break from Caesurism 149 / A Heuristic View 152 / The Normativity of Heuristics 155 / Caesurism as a Heuristic: Seeing Fractal Patterns in Theoretical Debates 163 / The Normativity of Caesurism 174 / Conclusion: How Far Have We Got 181 / / Part II / An Archetype 185 / 4 Comparatio 187 / Why? 187 / Building an Archetype 191 / Conclusion: A Roadmap to Part II 197 / / 5 Two Ends of Lateral Comparison: Identity and Alterity 202 / Introduction: Different Ends 202 / The Argument by Analogy 206 / The Persistence of Caveated Generalisation 209 / Alterity 211 / Compare and Contrast 215 / Conclusion: Comparatio as Common Ground 220 / Coda: A Note on Diagrams 223 / 6 Another Dimension of Lateral Comparison: Identity and Intensity 225 / Introduction: A Genealogy o f Intensity 225 / Varieties o f Intensity in Anthropological Comparison 229 / Intensity and Identity: A Second Axis 234 / Conclusion: The Plane of Lateral Comparison 237 / 7 Two Ends of Frontal Comparison: Identity, Alterity, Reflexivity 242 / Introduction: Us and Them not This and That 242 / Tylor’s Ejections 251 / The Persistence of Ejection: Interpretivism and Methodological Equation 256 / Ejection and Satire 259 / Equivocation and Recursivity: Ejection Inside-Out 261 / Conclusion: Identity, Alterity, Reflexivity 266 / 8 The Oscillations of Frontal Comparison: Identity, Intensity, Reflexivity 270 / Introduction: Intense Critiques, Intense Responses 270 / An Unstable Compound 274 / Frontal Comparison Stabilised: The West, Anthropology and the Rest 279 / After Culture: Frontal Comparison Destabilised 286 / Not-Quite-Fictions: Frontal Comparison Refounded 291 / Oscillation and Rigour 310 / The Frontal and the Lateral: A Constitutive Oscillation 313 / / Conclusion: The Archetype of Comparison 319 / 9 Rigour 325 / Introduction: The Rigour of Comparisons 325 / The Rigour of the Anthropologist 327 / The Rigour of the Discipline 331 / The Rigour of the World 339 / Conclusion 344 / / Conclusion 347 / Good Comparisons are Comparisons that Object 347 / Coda: Views from the Fence 353 / Notes 355 / References 365 /