Matei Candea is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a former honorary editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is the author of Corsican Fragments (2010), editor of The Social after Gabriel Tarde (2010) and Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory (2018).
Introduction
Part I. Impossibilities: 1. The impossible method
2. The garden of forking paths
3. Caesurism and heuristics
Part II. An Archetype: 4. Comparatio
5. Two ends of lateral comparison: identity and alterity
6. Another dimension of lateral comparison: identity and intensity
7. Two ends of frontal comparison: identity, alterity, reflexivity
8. The oscillations of frontal comparison: identity, intensity, reflexivity
9. Rigour
Conclusion.
