Comparing the incomparable
By: Marcel Detienne, Janet Lloyd.
Contributors: Lloyd, Janet.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780804757492; 9780804757508
Subjects: Ethnohistory -- Comparative method; Ethnology -- Comparative method; History -- Comparative method; Social sciences and history
Work titles: Comparer l'incomparable.
Notes: "Comparing the Incomparable was originally published in French in 2000 under the title Comparer l'incomparable 2000, Éditions du Seuil"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a constructive comparativism: between historians and anthropologists; title: Should an anthropologist happen to meet a historian; title: 'A traveller everywhere'; title: The confrontation between Greeks and Americans; title: The blemishes of nationalism; title: Those 'without writing', 'without history'; title: Saint Marc Bloch; title: How should the history of England be written today?; title: And in Germany?; title: Toward a more just and egalitarian society of historians; title: Working together; title: Constructing comparables; title: Singular and plural; title: The shock of the incomparable; title: The art of coining something new; title: Mechanisms of thought; title: Passing from autochthony to refoundation; title: What is the use of comparison?; title: Setting a variety of regimes of hisroicity in perspective; title: 'Be wary of history'; title: Historical memory and thought; title: The configurations of change; title: The colours of the past; title: An obstacle to thinking of the past as something other than the present: Homer; title: Working on one's own traditions; title: Experimenting in the field of polytheisms; title: 'The fact of structure', with Georges Dumézil; title: Models of Zeus; title: The limits to 'how a god intervenes'; title: Begin with groupings of gods; title: Concrete objects used as 'litmus papers'; title: The foot of Apollo, the strides of Hermes and the foundation stones of Poseidon; title: In the intimacy of the house of Delphi; title: Manipulate! Obtain reactions!; title: From assembly practices to forms of politics: a comparative approach; title: Multiple beginnings; title: Concrete practices; title: Communal affairs; title: Fashioning a place in which to speak; title: A democracy invented in Africa; title: Assembling and giving form to the res publica; title: Notaries, scribes and messengers: modes of publicity; title: Writing down the law and making it speak; title: Places of equality and types of men.