This innovative text reinvigorates argumentation studies by exploring the experience of argument across cultures, introducing an anthropological perspective int

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Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.

In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range of territory

"What is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the gl