Beyond Relativism: Comparability in Cultural AnthropologyRowman Altamira, 2007 - 185 páginas 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 |
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