Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.

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The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures are intended to commemorate both the man and his work the latter being viewed as having provided an admirably broad and substant

A collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new cas