How People Compare

1 On the Act of Comparison: An Introduction

Mathijs Pelkmans

Part I: The Art of Comparing

2 In Defence of Bad Comparisons? Comparisons and their Motivations in Indonesia's Riau Islands

Nicholas J. Long

3 Recognizing Uniqueness: On (Not) Comparing the World Nomad Games

Mathijs Pelkmans

4 Totemic Comparisons; or, How Things Compose in Southeast Solomon Islands

Michael W. Scott

5 All Alike Anyway: An Amazonian Ethics of Incommensurability

Harry Walker

Part II: Comparison at Work

6 Principles or Pragmatics? Debt Advice as a Comparative Encounter

Deborah James

7 Long, Hard Labours of Comparison: The Japanese Salaryman Distinguishing himself in his Totalizing Corporation

Mitchell W Sedgwick

8 Uncomfortable Comparisons: Anthropology, Development and Mixed Feelings

Katy Gardner and Julia Qermezi Huang

9 Implicit Comparisons, or Why it is Inevitable to Study China in Comparative Perspective

Hans Steinmueller and Stephan Feuchtwang

10 Afterword: The Social Lives of Comparison

Harry Walker

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