2018年12月9日 星期日

Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison By Bruce Lincoln


Join author and U of C professor Bruce Lincoln TODAY at the Co-op at 3pm for a discussion and Q&A on his new book, "Apples and Oranges" . He will be joined in conversation by Marshall Sahlins.

The book Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison, Bruce Lincoln is published by University of Chicago Press.



List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments

I. General Observations
1. Introduction 3
2. The Future of History of Religions
3. Theses on Comparison

II. Recent Attempts at Grand Comparison
4. The Werewolf, the Shaman, and the Historian
5. The Lingering Prehistory of Laurasia and Gondwana

III. A Comparatist’s Laboratory: The Ancient Scythians
6. Reflections on the Herodotean Mirror: Scythians, Greeks, Oaths, and Fire
7. Greeks and Scythians in Conversation
8. Scythian Priests and Siberian Shamans

IV. Weak Comparisons
9. Further on Envy and Greed
10. King Aun and the Witches
11. Contrasting Styles of Apocalyptic Time
12. Sly Grooms, Shady Magpies, and the Mythic Foundations of Hierarchy
13. In Hierarchy’s Wake
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index




Bruce Lincoln (born 1948) is Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of ... State (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison (University of Chicago Press, 2018) ...

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. ...Google Books
Originally publishedAugust 22, 2018

shamble
  1. A scene or condition of complete disorder or ruin: “The economy was in a shambles” (W. Bruce Lincoln).




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