Apples and oranges : explorations in, on, and with comparison /
Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the...
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Table of Contents:
- General observations. Introduction
- The future of history of religions
- Theses on comparison
- Recent attempts at grand comparison. The werewolf, the shaman, and the historian
- The lingering prehistory of Laurasia and Gondwana
- A comparatist's laboratory: the ancient Scythians. Reflections on the Herodotean mirror: Scythians, Greeks, oaths, and fire
- Greeks and Scythians in conversation
- Scythian priests and Siberian shamans
- Weak comparisons. Further on envy and greed
- King Aun and the witches
- Contrasting styles of apocalyptic time
- Sly grooms, shady magpies, and the mythic foundations of hierarchy
- In hierarchy's wake.