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How People Compare

Mathijs Pelkmans Harry Walker

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English
Routledge
26 August 2024
This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why and with what consequences diversely situated groups of people – many of whom operate on radically different premises to professional anthropologists – make comparisons, above all, between themselves and real or imagined others. What motivates people to compare, what techniques or logics do they employ, and what are the most likely outcomes – both intended and unintended? How do comparative practices reflect, reinforce or refuse uneven relations of power? And finally, what can a rejuvenated comparative anthropology learn from the anthropology of comparison? The volume develops a dialogue between scholars with long- term ethnographic engagement in a variety of contexts around the world and is particularly valuable reading for those interested in anthropological methodology and theory.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   390g
ISBN:   9781032255149
ISBN 10:   1032255145
Series:   LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Pages:   202
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mathijs Pelkmans is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Harry Walker is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

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