The Comparative Method in Anthropological Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E A Hammel (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-155 |
| Publication date | 1980-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500009269 |
| OpenAlex | W2101381351 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 25 |
Comparison is an indispensable technique of analytic scholarship. No analytic statement about empirical observation can be made without at least one comparison providing the contrast that permits either inductive generalization or deductive proof. Comparison is used for these purposes in all disciplines, but not always in the same way, or for the same reasons. Anthropology came to comparison because comparison was thrust on it by the rediscovery of classical antiquity and the opening of Africa, Asia, and the New World to a previously more isolated Europe. Indeed, anthropology was born as a response to the great cultural contrasts thus exposed. This philosophical child of comparison, however, pursued it in some very special ways. In the first place, the initial interests of anthropology lay in the reconstruction of an unknown human past, attempting to explain cultural variety through the reconstruction of events leading up to the present. In the second place, the comparisons drawn by anthropologists were usually extreme, prompted as they were by the shock value of new discoveries
Comparative method · Statement (logic · Value (mathematics · African history and culture analysis
In a New Land
Labour Market Regimes Under Threat? Sources of Continuity in Germany, Britain, and Sweden
Partisan Competition and Welfare State Retrenchment
Round Up the Usual Suspects!
Post‐Industrial Pressures on the Mature Welfare States
The Political Economy of Social Pacts
The New Politics of the Welfare State
The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform
Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of Welfare State Adaptation
Comparative Institutional Advantages of Welfare State Regimes and New Coalitions in Welfare State Reforms
The Dynamics of Welfare State Expansion
Welfare State and Production Regimes in the Era of Retrenchment
Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring
Who Pays for Health Care Reform?
Coping With Permanent Austerity Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies
Comparisons
The Role of General Theory in Comparative-Historical Sociology
Comparative Approaches to Latin American History
Society, globalization and the comparative method
Causation
What Can Cross-Cultural Correlations Teach Us about Human Nature
Repensando a história comparada da América Latina
The Migrant Village Association in Latin America
Contemporary Comparative Anthropology - The Why We Post Project
Family and inheritance
The Disputing Process–Law in Ten Societies
Variations in Value Orientations
The history of ethnological theory
A handbook of method in cultural anthropology.
Disputing Process-Law in Ten Societies
Rise of Anthropological Theory
On the Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Configurations of Culture Growth
The Social Organization of Australian Tribes
The Social Organization of Australian Tribes
Structural Anthropology
A Study of History
Basic Color Terms
Cross-Cultural Sampling
On a Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions; Applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent
Salish Language and Culture
The Classification of Residence in Censuses
World Ethnographic Sample
Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison
Witchcraft in Four African Societies
A Suggested Origin for Gentile Organization
Residence Rules
Comparing Household Structure Over Time and Between Cultures
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2022 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |