Description
Book SynopsisUltimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: The Stakes of Comparison
Chapter 1. Why Compare?
Chapter 2. Why Not Compare?
Chapter 3. Crossroads, Distant Killing, and Translation: On the Ethics and Politics of Comparison
Chapter 4. Axes of Comparison
Part II: Comparison in the World: Uses and Abuses
Chapter 5. Comparison as Relation
Chapter 6. On Comparison: Who Is Comparing What and Why?
Chapter 7. Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-Cultural Analogy
Chapter 8. Race and the Possibilities of Comparative Critique
Chapter 9. The Material World of Comparison
Chapter 10. Chomsky's Golden Rule: Comparison and Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 11. Endings and Beginnings: Reimagining the Tasks and Spaces of Comparison
Chapter 12. Comparison Literature
Part II: Comparison in the Disciplines
Chapter 13. Rethinking Comparativism
Chapter 14. The Uses of Incommensurability in Anthropology
Chapter 15. Anthropology, Migration, and Comparative Consciousness
Chapter 16. A Meditation on Comparison in Historical Scholarship
Notes on Contributors
Index
