• ISBN13: 9780521653015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge
• Publication Date: June 16, 1999
• Pages: 278
• Original Price: GBP 69.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 545 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): History & Theory

About the Book Leading anthropologists and political scientists are brought together in this volume to debate the problem of comparison, taking up a variety of topics from nationalist violence and labor strikes to ritual forms and religious practices. The contributors criticize conventional forms of comparative method, and introduce new comparative strategies, ranging from abstract model building to ethnographically based methods. They represent a wide variety of theoretical positions, from rational choice theory to interpretivism, and the issues are clarified in the cut and thrust of debate.