@Book{833966847, author="Veer, Peter van der", title="value of comparison", series="The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures", year="2016", publisher="Duke University Press", address="Durham, NC", keywords="Anthropology; China; Comparative method; Ethnology; Sociology; India; Gesellschaft; Zivilisation; Gesellschaftsordnung; Qualitativ vergleichende Analyse; Sozialanthropologie; Anthropologie; Ethnologie; Indien", abstract="The fragment and the whole -- The comparative advantage of anthropology -- Market and money: a critique of rational choice theory -- Civilization and comparison -- Keeping the Muslims out: concepts of civilization, civility, and civil society in India, China, and Western Europe -- The afterlife of images -- Comparing exclusion -- Lost in the mountains: notes on diversity in the Southeast Asian mainland massif -- Who cares? Care arrangements and sanitation for the poor in India and elsewhere", note="Peter van der Veer ; with a foreword by Thomas Gibson", note="Literaturverzeichnis Seite 171-182, Literaturhinweise Seite 155-170", isbn="9780822361398", language="English" }