Portrayers of butterflies. The subordination of comparison in today’s Social and Cultural Anthropology

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In today’s social and/or cultural anthropology, there is a trend to consider comparison as an auxiliary resource to ethnography whose usefulness is restricted to the detection and analysis of diversity. This paper argues that such situation has negative effects on the control of comparative procedur...

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Autor principal: Balbi, Fernando Alberto
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología 2015
Materias:
Antropología Social y/o Cultural
comparación
etnografía
Teoría Antropológica
Epistemología
social and/or cultural Anthropology
comparison
ethnography anthropological theory
epistemology
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/9516
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Revista del Museo de Antropología de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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spelling I10-R372-article-95162024-11-04T18:44:49Z Portrayers of butterflies. The subordination of comparison in today’s Social and Cultural Anthropology Retratistas de mariposas. Acerca del lugar subordinado de la comparación en la antropología social y cultural contemporánea Balbi, Fernando Alberto Antropología Social y/o Cultural comparación etnografía Teoría Antropológica Epistemología social and/or cultural Anthropology comparison ethnography anthropological theory epistemology In today’s social and/or cultural anthropology, there is a trend to consider comparison as an auxiliary resource to ethnography whose usefulness is restricted to the detection and analysis of diversity. This paper argues that such situation has negative effects on the control of comparative procedures, on ethnography’s productivity, on the ability of anthropologists to produce theoretical generalizations and, consequently, on the relevance of the discipline itself. It is suggested that, in order to recover anthropology’s ability to formulate generalizations, we must restore comparison in its condition as an analytical resource in its own right and overcome the naturalization of its connection with diversity. The epistemological foundations of this enterprise are outlined in order to trace two possible ways to combine comparison and ethnography which would facilitate the simultaneous production of case analysis and theoretical-methodological resources. En la antropología social y/o cultural actual, la comparación tiende a ser considerada como un recurso auxiliar de la etnografía cuya utilidad se limita a la detección y el análisis de la diversidad. En este artículo se argumenta que ello tiene efectos negativos sobre el control de los procedimientos comparativos, la productividad de la etnografía, la capacidad de los antropólogos para producir generalizaciones teóricas y, en consecuencia, la relevancia de la propia disciplina. Se sugiere que, con el objeto de recuperar la capacidad de la disciplina para formular generalizaciones, es necesario restablecer a la comparación en su condición originaria de recurso analítico por derecho propio y desnaturalizar su relación con la diversidad. Asimismo, se esbozan los fundamentos epistemológicos de dicha empresa, para finalmente pasar a delinear dos formas posibles de combinar a la comparación y la etnografía que facilitarían la producción simultánea de análisis de casos y de recursos teórico-metodológicos. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología 2015-06-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer reviewed article Artículo revisado por pares Artigo revisado por pares application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/9516 10.31048/1852.4826.v8.n1.9516 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol. 8 No. 1 (2015); 171-186 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol. 8 Núm. 1 (2015); 171-186 Revista del Museo de Antropología; v. 8 n. 1 (2015); 171-186 1852-4826 1852-060X 10.31048/1852.4826.v8.n1 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/9516/12178 Derechos de autor 2015 Fernando Alberto Balbi
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topic Antropología Social y/o Cultural
comparación
etnografía
Teoría Antropológica
Epistemología
social and/or cultural Anthropology
comparison
ethnography anthropological theory
epistemology
spellingShingle Antropología Social y/o Cultural
comparación
etnografía
Teoría Antropológica
Epistemología
social and/or cultural Anthropology
comparison
ethnography anthropological theory
epistemology
Balbi, Fernando Alberto
Portrayers of butterflies. The subordination of comparison in today’s Social and Cultural Anthropology
topic_facet Antropología Social y/o Cultural
comparación
etnografía
Teoría Antropológica
Epistemología
social and/or cultural Anthropology
comparison
ethnography anthropological theory
epistemology
author Balbi, Fernando Alberto
author_facet Balbi, Fernando Alberto
author_sort Balbi, Fernando Alberto
title Portrayers of butterflies. The subordination of comparison in today’s Social and Cultural Anthropology
title_short Portrayers of butterflies. The subordination of comparison in today’s Social and Cultural Anthropology
title_full Portrayers of butterflies. The subordination of comparison in today’s Social and Cultural Anthropology
title_fullStr Portrayers of butterflies. The subordination of comparison in today’s Social and Cultural Anthropology
title_full_unstemmed Portrayers of butterflies. The subordination of comparison in today’s Social and Cultural Anthropology
title_sort portrayers of butterflies. the subordination of comparison in today’s social and cultural anthropology
description In today’s social and/or cultural anthropology, there is a trend to consider comparison as an auxiliary resource to ethnography whose usefulness is restricted to the detection and analysis of diversity. This paper argues that such situation has negative effects on the control of comparative procedures, on ethnography’s productivity, on the ability of anthropologists to produce theoretical generalizations and, consequently, on the relevance of the discipline itself. It is suggested that, in order to recover anthropology’s ability to formulate generalizations, we must restore comparison in its condition as an analytical resource in its own right and overcome the naturalization of its connection with diversity. The epistemological foundations of this enterprise are outlined in order to trace two possible ways to combine comparison and ethnography which would facilitate the simultaneous production of case analysis and theoretical-methodological resources.
publisher Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
publishDate 2015
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