The Value of Comparison
1st Edition
Published on 19. May 2016
208 pages
978-0-8223-7422-0 (ISBN)
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In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer highlights anthropology's continuing ability to gain insights on the whole through the comparative study of the particular and unique while critiquing the quantitative social sciences for their sweeping generalizations.
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Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen, Germany and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He is the author of several books, including The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India.
Content
Foreword / Thomas Gibson vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part I. The Fragment and the Whole
1. The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology 25
2. Market and Money: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory 48
Part II. Civilization and Comparison
3. Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe 61
4. The Afterlife of Images 80
Part III. Comparing Exclusion
5. Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif 107
6. Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere 130
A Short Conclusion 147
Notes 155
Bibliography 171
Index 183
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part I. The Fragment and the Whole
1. The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology 25
2. Market and Money: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory 48
Part II. Civilization and Comparison
3. Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe 61
4. The Afterlife of Images 80
Part III. Comparing Exclusion
5. Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif 107
6. Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere 130
A Short Conclusion 147
Notes 155
Bibliography 171
Index 183
