How People Compare (Paperback, 1)

1 On the Act of Comparison: An Introduction

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

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

5 All Alike Anyway: An Amazonian Ethics of Incommensurability

6 Principles or Pragmatics? Debt Advice as a Comparative Encounter

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

8 Uncomfortable Comparisons: Anthropology, Development and Mixed Feelings

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

10 Afterword: The Social Lives of Comparison