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Volume 21 • Number 4

Summer 2002


 

From Ellis Island to JFK: Comparison in Anthropology and History

CAROLINE B. BRETTELL

ANTHROPOLOGY IS A discipline that trains people to look for the general in the particular and that draws conclusions based on a close analysis of similarities and differences. It is, in other words, a discipline rooted in comparison although in recent years, on the heels of interpretivism and postmodernism, comparison has been pushed aside by many anthropologists.


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