It is different because education, schools in particular, are culturally about as far apart as two environments can be without triggering a major study in comparative anthropology.

My colleagues and I - most of us work in the field of comparative social anthropology and history - tried Papers 1, two years ago.

"Full marks for comparative anthropology."

His concept of the "process of civilisation" received, however, also critique from the side of comparative anthropology of bodily practices (Duerr 1988/2005).

Goody has pioneered the comparative anthropology of literacy, attempting to gauge the causal preconditions and effects of writing as a technology.

Ritual and Memory: towards a comparative anthropology of religion (2004) with Laidlaw, J. (eds.)

That molecular phylogenetics could compete with comparative anthropology for determining the proximity of species to humans.

The broad pluralist term was then especially important in the nineteenth-century development of comparative anthropology, where it has continued to designate a whole and distinctive way of life.

That is to mollify certain sticklers who might deem visiting three bookstores in Manhattan something far short of a major research project in comparative religious anthropology.

I could, have offered them psychology and sociology and comparative anthropology; I had such books on hand.