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The Value of Comparison

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Peter van der Veer, Thomas Gibson
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    208
    Publisher:
    Duke University Press (June 3, 2016)
    Imprint:
    Duke University Press
    Language:
    English
    Audience:
    Professional and scholarly
    ISBN-13:
    9780822361589
    ISBN-10:
    0822361582
    Weight:
    9.6oz
    Dimensions:
    6" x 9"
    File:
    TWO RIVERS-PERSEUS-Metadata_Only_Perseus_Distribution_Customer_Group_Metadata_20250917125829-20250918.xml
    Folder:
    TWO RIVERS
    List Price:
    $30.95
    Country of Origin:
    United States
    Case Pack:
    60
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    Publisher Identifier:
    P-PER
    Discount Code:
    A
    Pub Discount:
    46
  • Overview

    In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the broad social theories they rely on to task for their inability to question Western cultural presuppositions, demonstrating that anthropology's comparative approach provides a better means to understand societies. This capacity stems from anthropology's engagement with diversity, its fragmentary approach to studying social life, and its ability to translate difference between cultures. Through essays on topics as varied as iconoclasm, urban poverty, Muslim immigration, and social exclusion van der Veer highlights the ways that studying the particular and the unique allows for gaining a deeper knowledge of the whole without resorting to simple generalizations that elide and marginalize difference.