Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: critical comparisons
- 2 National revivals and violence
- 3 Mechanisms and structures in comparisons
- 4 Comparative methodologies in the analysis of anthropological data
- 5 The role of comparison in the light of the theory of culture
- 6 Case studies of contemporary job loss
- 7 Defining the contours of an Islamic reform movement: an essay in successive contrasts
- 8 Producing an analytic narrative
- 9 Political consciousness on Boa Ventura: 1967 and 1989 compared
- 10 Comparisons in the context of a game theoretic argument
- 11 The role of microhistories in comparative studies
- List of references
- Index of authors
- Subject index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: critical comparisons
- 2 National revivals and violence
- 3 Mechanisms and structures in comparisons
- 4 Comparative methodologies in the analysis of anthropological data
- 5 The role of comparison in the light of the theory of culture
- 6 Case studies of contemporary job loss
- 7 Defining the contours of an Islamic reform movement: an essay in successive contrasts
- 8 Producing an analytic narrative
- 9 Political consciousness on Boa Ventura: 1967 and 1989 compared
- 10 Comparisons in the context of a game theoretic argument
- 11 The role of microhistories in comparative studies
- List of references
- Index of authors
- Subject index
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- Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999