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In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the broad social theories they rely on to task for their inability to question Western cultural presuppositions, demonstrating that anthropology's comparative approach provides a better means to understand soc
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- van der Veer, Peter ;Gibson, Thomas
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822374220
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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