action comparison

jargon

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

university professor

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

innovator in the field of

anthropology

is a kind of comparison employed by anthropologist which, rather than being used for cultural translation, is interior and personal, manifesting not in translation of the other, but in the self-transformation of the anthropologist.

he calls 'action comparison' or 'active anthropology'. What he means is that the comparisons made by an anthropologist do not lead only to external cultural translations presented to audiences. There is also an interior and personal aspect: as anthropologist convert, through comparison, their personal experiences in the field into a professional anthropological identity at home, they develop particular insights and talents for public service. This capacity is Peacock's answer to the question of how to combine the anthropologist's comparative approach with public responsibility. Moreover, it details the particular strengths the comparative tradition gives anthropologist in such service. ' ('Action comparison Efforts towards a global and comparative yet local and active anthropology' anthropology by comparison: by andre gingrich and richard g. fox p. 44)

is like in that joke where the old man went to a talk. When he came home, is son asked, 'what did the man say'' The old man replied, 'he didn't say'.

My wife's elderly uncle recently went to a meeting and heard a speech. When he came home, someone asked, 'what did the man say'' The old man replied, 'He didn't say.'

James Peacock

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