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Autore: | Gagne Renaud |
Titolo: | Regimes of comparatism : : frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology / / Renaud Gagne |
Pubblicazione: | Boston, MA : , : Brill, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (473 pages) |
Disciplina: | 121.4 |
Soggetto topico: | Comparison (Philosophy) |
Religions | |
Anthropology | |
History | |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Regimes of Comparatism / Renaud Gagné -- Comparisons Compared: A Study in the Early Modern Roots of Cultural History / Anthony Grafton -- What Was the Comparative History of Religions in 17th-Century Europe (and Beyond)? Pagan Monotheism/Pagan Animism, from T’ien to Tylor / Dmitri Levitin -- Comparing Cultures in the Early Modern World: Hierarchies, Genealogies and the Idea of European Modernity / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Comparison and Christianity: Sacrifice in the Age of the Encyclopedia / Jonathan Sheehan -- The Isis of Turin Affair / Renaud Gagné -- What Has Alexandria to Do with Jerusalem?: Writing the History of the Jews in the 19th Century / Simon Goldhill -- Akbar’s Dream: The Mughal Emperor in Nineteenth-Century Literature / Phiroze Vasunia -- History of Religions: The Comparative Moment / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Going Full Frontal: Two Modalities of Comparison in Social Anthropology / Matei Candea -- Placing Self Amid Others: A Mongolian Technique of Comparison / Caroline Humphrey -- Anthropological Comparatisms: Generalisation, Symmetrisation, Bifurcation / Philippe Descola -- Friendship and Kinship: Comparatism and Its Theoretical Possibilities in Anthropology / Marilyn Strathern -- The Fortunes of Comparatism: History, Anthropology, Philosophy / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and methods of comparison, and the need for a cognitively robust relativism is an integral part of a mature historical self-placement. This volume looks at how different theories and practices of writing and interpretation have developed at different times in different cultures and reconsiders the specificities of modern comparative approaches within a variety of comparative moments. The idea is to reconsider the specificities, the obstacles, and the possibilities of modern comparative approaches in history and anthropology through a variety of earlier and parallel comparative horizons. Particular attention is given to the exceptional role of Athens and Jerusalem in shaping the Western understanding of cultural difference. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Regimes of comparatism |
ISBN: | 90-04-38763-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910822542003321 |
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