Research Catalog

Title

Comparing the incomparable / Marcel Detienne ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

Author

Detienne, Marcel

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Lloyd, Janet.
• Lloyd, Janet, 1934-

Description

xv, 108 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Emerging Capital Markets take stock of the state and evolution of capital markets and related reforms over time and across regions, focusing on the experience of Latin America. Second, it analyzes the factors related to the development of capital markets. And third, in light of this anlysis, it discusses the prospects for capital market developments in emerging economies and the implications for the reform agenda."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Cultural memory in the present

Uniform Title

• Comparer l'incomparable. English
• Cultural memory in the present

Alternative Title

Comparer l'incomparable.

Subject

• Ethnohistory > Comparative method
• Ethnology > Comparative method
• History > Comparative method
• Social sciences and history

Note

• "Comparing the Incomparable was originally published in French in 2000 under the title Comparer l'incomparable 2000, Éditions du Seuil"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Toward a constructive comparativism: between historians and anthropologists -- Should an anthropologist happen to meet a historian -- Constructing comparables -- Setting a variety of regimes of historicity in perspective -- Experimenting in the field of polytheisms -- From assembly practices to forms of politics: a comparative approach.

ISBN

• 9780804757492 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804757508 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007051704

OCLC

• 187300199
• SCSB-12192820

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Harvard Library