Regimes of comparatism frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology / edited by Renaud Gagné; Simon Goldhill; Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd.
| Other author | Gagné, Renaud, 1976- |
| Other author | Goldhill, Simon. |
| Other author | Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] |
| Description | x, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 1570-078X ; volume 24 Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 24. |
| Contents | 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 modem 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 . |
| Summary | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018960517 |
| ISBN | 9789004387621 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9004387625 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
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