{"id":1002,"date":"2017-01-05T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2017-01-05T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:16:08","slug":"the-value-of-comparison-in-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/the-value-of-comparison-in-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"The value of comparison (in anthropology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter van der Veer (2013: 11) on the <strong>\u201ccomparative advantage of anthropology\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>1) anthropology offers a <strong>critique of the universalization of Western models<\/strong><br \/>\n2) <strong>holistic approach to social life<\/strong> offers a greater potential for social science than the analysis of large data<br \/>\n3) anthropological holism implies the drawing of larger inferences from the <strong>intensive study of fragments of social life<\/strong><br \/>\n4) anthropological contribution to the study of embodied practice <strong>emphasizes the social and provides a critique of sociobiological determinism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Van der Veer, P. (2013). The value of comparison. Transcript of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture given on November 13, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haujournal.org\/vanderVeer_TheValueOfComparison_LHML_Transcript.pdf\">http:\/\/www.haujournal.org\/vanderVeer_TheValueOfComparison_LHML_Transcript.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter van der Veer (2013: 11) on the \u201ccomparative advantage of anthropology\u201d: 1) anthropology offers a critique of the universalization of Western models 2) holistic approach to social life offers a greater potential for social science than the analysis of large data 3) anthropological holism implies the drawing of larger inferences from the intensive study&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/the-value-of-comparison-in-anthropology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The value of comparison (in anthropology)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","tag-sociocultural-anthropology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}