The Value of Comparison (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)

Synopsis

The Fragment And The Whole -- The Comparative Advantage Of Anthropology -- Market And Money: A Critique Of Rational Choice Theory -- Civilization And Comparison -- Keeping The Muslims Out: Concepts Of Civilization, Civility, And Civil Society In India, China, And Western Europe -- The Afterlife Of Images -- Comparing Exclusion -- Lost In The Mountains: Notes On Diversity In The Southeast Asian Mainland Massif -- Who Cares? Care Arrangements And Sanitation For The Poor In India And Elsewhere. Peter Van Der Veer ; With A Foreword By Thomas Gibson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.