TY  - GEN
AU  - Candea, Matei,
TI  - Comparison in anthropology: the impossible method 
T2  - New departures in anthropology
SN  - 9781108465045
U1  - 930.1 C160C 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Comparative method
KW  - Methodology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The impossible method -- The garden of forking paths -- Caesurism and heuristics -- Comparatio -- Two ends of lateral comparison: identity and alterity -- Another dimension of lateral comparison: identity and intensity -- Two ends of frontal comparison: identity, alterity, reflexivity -- The oscillations of frontal comparison: identity, intensity, reflexivity -- Rigour
N2  - "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"--
ER  -