Beyond Relativism: Comparability in Cultural Anthropology

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Rowman Altamira, 2007 - 185 oldal
Can elements of one culture--kinship relations, for example--be profitably compared to similar elements in other cultures? According to much anthropological thinking of recent decades, the answer is 'no.' Cultures are closed systems, many people argue, an

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Are Cultures Like Apples and Oranges?
1
A Scientific Cultural Anthropology?
3
Challenges to Comparability
15
Comparability in Natural Science
29
Dimensions in Natural Science Length and Temperature
31
The Problem of Objects
59
Comparability in Cultural Anthropology Dimensions and Objects
73
PhonologyPhonetics
75
Labor Productivity in Agriculture
93
Social Organization of Canal Irrigation
105
Kinship and Marriage
129
Can We Compare Apples and Oranges?
153
We Can Compare Apples and Oranges
155
References Cited
165
Index
177
About the Author

Ethnobiology
85

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Robert C. Hunt is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

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