Comparison in Anthropology

Candea, Matei

doi:10.1017/9781108667609

Cited by 96 publications

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“…According to anthropological and ethnographic convention ( Mol 2008 ; Sangaramoorthy and Kroeger, n.d.) the data was not formally coded but organised in case-study-like narratives (mostly centred either around individual people or specific situations, based on ‘thick description’) ( Geertz and Darnton 2017 ), individual vignettes and specific fragments ( Veer and Thomas 2016 ). Comparing both findings from our different but connected field sites and individual analysis from the three coauthors led to our initial set of insights and the establishment of exclusion as a core vector ( Candea 2018 ; Schnegg and Lowe 2020 ). All three coauthors participated in the analysis leading initially to the production of short reports based on our preliminary findings per research project.…”

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Of not passing: homelessness, addiction, mental health and care during COVID-19

2022

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People experiencing homelessness in the UK were unconditionally offered housing (and support) from the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020. For many, that meant ‘(re)entering’ the support system and having a chance to ‘move on’ to longer-term housing. This beneficial effect of some of the policy reactions to the pandemic on people experiencing homelessness was unexpected. On the flip side, however, particularly for people struggling with drug use and mental health issues, adequate support was not available for long periods of time; support was either suspended temporarily or people were excluded from institutional support for not adhering to, for instance, lockdown rules. Similarly, digital support alternatives—modelled on increasingly widespread telemedicine—did often not work specifically for people struggling with complex needs or women experiencing homelessness. This research paper reports detailed evidence of what we observed as continued and catalysed exclusions based on interviews and ethnographic observations with both people experiencing homelessness and service providers from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Referring to our insights and learnings from three locally and temporally overlapping research projects between May 2020 and April 2021, we also propose changes to redesign future (health)care provision to prevent such impasses—which extend beyond lockdown situations to general conditional housing and support.

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Of not passing: homelessness, addiction, mental health and care during COVID-19

2022

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“…This was done individually then collectively to draw out common themes and identify similarities and differences across the data. Our comparative approach is rooted in anthropological evaluation of lateral and disjunctive (Lazar, 2012) comparison as a means to generate theoretical questions and insights, deepening scholarly conversations on particular regions or themes (Candea, 2018), rather than primarily deriving clear conclusions about cause and effect through comparing and contrasting cases. In comparing three diverse cases our aim is both to offer new empirical and theoretical insights into the politics of coproduction in the Global South and shine new light on the politics of public service provisioning in Latin America.…”

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The politics of coproduction during Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’: Water, housing, and waste in comparative perspective

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“…The subfield of comparative linguistics (or "linguistic typology") is thriving, and works such as the World atlas of language structures (Haspelmath et al 2005) are generally regarded as successful and interesting, just as anthropologists have long compared a wide range of cultures from around the world (e.g. Boas 1896;Ember & Ember 1998;Candea 2018;Slingerland et al 2020).…”

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The structural uniqueness of languages and the value of comparison for language description

Haspelmath

2020

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This paper shows why it is not a contradiction to say that each language is structurally unique and must be described with its own categories, but language description profits enormously from typological knowledge. It has sometimes been suggested that the Boasian imperative (“each language should be described in its own terms”) leads to uninsightful analyses, and that language description should instead be “typologically informed”. But the Boasian imperative is not at all incompatible with an intimate connection between description and comparison: Comparative (or typological) knowledge is highly valuable both for making our descriptions transparent and comprehensible, and for helping describers to ask a wide range of questions that would not have occurred to them otherwise. Since we do not know whether any of the building blocks of languages are innate and universal for this reason, we cannot rely on general frameworks (of the generative type) for our descriptions, but we can use typological questionnaires and other kinds of comparative information as a scaffold. Such scaffolds are not theoretical components of the description, but are important methodological tools.

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Comparison in Anthropology

Cited by 96 publications

References 168 publications

Of not passing: homelessness, addiction, mental health and care during COVID-19

Of not passing: homelessness, addiction, mental health and care during COVID-19

The politics of coproduction during Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’: Water, housing, and waste in comparative perspective

The structural uniqueness of languages and the value of comparison for language description

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