Modes of comparison
Subtitle: theory and practice
By: Aram A. Yengoyan, editor.
Contributors: Yengoyan, Aram A.
Series: The comparative studies in society and history book series
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780472099184; 9780472069187
Subjects: History -- Philosophy.; Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From the history of mentalities to anthropological history / André Burguière; title: Regulation theory, post-Marxism, and the transition from the new social movements to anti-globalization and the far right / George Steinmetz; title: The case for comparing histories / Raymond Grew; title: On rereading an earlier essay / Raymond Grew; title: Comparison and its discontents / Aram Yengoyan; title: Frazer, Leach, and Virgil: the popularity (and unpopularity) of The Golden Bough / Mary Beard ; Afterword / Mary Beard; title: Cowries and conquest: toward a subalternate quality theory of money / Chris Gregory; title: Cowries and conquest: prelude to a postscript / Chris Gregory; title: Global violence and nationalizing wars in Eurasia and America: the geopolitics of war in the mid-nineteenth century / Michael Geyer and Charles Bright; title: Postscript: on regional transformation, globalization, and war, with some afterthoughts on comparative and global history / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer; title: Testing paradigms with comparative perspectives: British India and patterns of scientific and technology transfer in the age of European global hegemony / Michael Adas; title: Race, ethnicity, species, and breed: totemism and horse-breed classification in America / John Borneman; title: Postscript: reflections on totemism tomorrow: horse breeds and breeding in the United States / France John Borneman; title: The cities of Avignon and Worms as expressions of European community, 1945-1975 / Beverly Heckart; title: Flowers and bones: approaches to the dead in Anglo-American and Italian cemeteries / Jack Goody and Cesare Poppi; title: Flowers and bones: posthumous reflections / Cesare Poppi.