Comparison of Histories

The mid-nineteenth-century renaissance of interest in historical and comparative social and cultural studies issued in a rich variety of work ranging through religion, law, myth, language, kinship, art, politics-indeed, the whole sweep of human institutions. We see it as an intellectual movement given unity by a common resolve to bring time and space dimensions to humanistic inquiry, to replace analysis of abstract categories with explication of specified conditions of human affairs as outcomes of processes operating through time. Revolutionary zeal that encouraged an immediate reconstruction of society based on deduction from reasoned, timeless principle was countered with a view that the setting of human group life is always a going concern, shaped variously by temporal forces, and understandable only in its concrete forms. From this perspective the Austinian search for legal forms and the dry calculations of Benthamite utilitarianism had painted a false picture that did not get at the real stuff of social life

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• Eastern History with Western Eyes’

  Vicky Morrisroe•Journal of Victorian Culture•2011

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• Sanguinary Amusement”

  Open Access•Vicky Morrisroe•Modern Intellectual History•2013

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• Ahead of his time? production and reception in the work of Alexander Lesser

  Open Access•Joan Vincent•American Ethnologist•1988

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• Evolution and society

  J W Burrow•Evolution and society•1966

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• Comparative Method in Anthropology

  Open Access•Andre Gingrich•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

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• Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences

  Edward Shils, Max Weber•Max Weber on the Methodology of…•2022

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• Ancient Law

  Open Access•Dante J Scala, Henry Sumner Maine et al.•Ancient Law•2012

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• The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology

  Open Access•Franz Boas•Science•1896

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• Victorian Critics of Democracy

  Oscar Maurer, Benjamin Evans Lippincott•The Philosophical Review•1939

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• Maine's Ancient Law in the Light of Primitive Societies

  R Redfield, Robert R Redfield•The Western Political Quarterly•1950

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• The Doctrine of Survivals

  Wilson D Wallis, Margaret T Hodgen•Journal of American Folklore•1936

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• Max Weber on Law in Economy and Society

  Max Rheinstein, Edward Shils•Harvard Law Review•1955

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• The Ethnological Theories of Henry Sumner Maine1

  Open Access•Henry Orenstein•American Anthropologist•1968

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