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1024424
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b778794
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| Uniform Title
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Comparer l'incomparable.English
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| Main Entry
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Detienne, Marcel.
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| Title & Author
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Comparing the incomparable /\ Marcel Detienne, Janet Lloyd.
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, Calif. :: Stanford University Press,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Cultural memory in the present
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ix, 108 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0804757496
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: 080475750X
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: 9780804757492
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: 9780804757508
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| Notes
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"Comparing the Incomparable was originally published in French in 2000 under the title Comparer l'incomparable 2000, Éditions du Seuil"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Toward a constructive comparativism: between historians and anthropologists -- Should an anthropologist happen to meet a historian -- 'A traveller everywhere' -- The confrontation between Greeks and Americans -- The blemishes of nationalism -- Those 'without writing', 'without history' -- Saint Marc Bloch -- How should the history of England be written today? -- And in Germany? -- Toward a more just and egalitarian society of historians -- Working together -- Constructing comparables -- Singular and plural -- The shock of the incomparable -- The art of coining something new -- Mechanisms of thought -- Passing from autochthony to refoundation -- What is the use of comparison? -- Setting a variety of regimes of hisroicity in perspective -- 'Be wary of history' -- Historical memory and thought -- The configurations of change -- The colours of the past -- An obstacle to thinking of the past as something other than the present: Homer -- Working on one's own traditions -- Experimenting in the field of polytheisms -- 'The fact of structure', with Georges Dumézil -- Models of Zeus -- The limits to 'how a god intervenes' -- Begin with groupings of gods -- Concrete objects used as 'litmus papers' -- The foot of Apollo, the strides of Hermes and the foundation stones of Poseidon -- In the intimacy of the house of Delphi -- Manipulate! Obtain reactions! -- From assembly practices to forms of politics: a comparative approach -- Multiple beginnings -- Concrete practices -- Communal affairs -- Fashioning a place in which to speak -- A democracy invented in Africa -- Assembling and giving form to the res publica -- Notaries, scribes and messengers: modes of publicity -- Writing down the law and making it speak -- Places of equality and types of men.
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Ethnohistory-- Comparative method.
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Ethnology-- Comparative method.
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History-- Comparative method.
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Social sciences and history.
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Anthropologie
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Ethnology-- Comparative method.
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Etnohistoria-- jämförande metod.
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Etnologi-- jämförande metod.
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Forschungsgegenstand
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Geschichtswissenschaft
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Historia-- jämförande metod.
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History-- Comparative method.
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Social sciences and history.
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Vergleich
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Geschiedfilosofie.
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| Dewey Classification
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909/.04
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| LC Classification
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GN345.2.D4813 2008
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15.02bcl
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15.02.bcl
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| Added Entry
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Lloyd, Janet,1934-
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