Антропология, миграция и компаративно мислене
Anthropology, Migration and Comparative Consciousness

Summary/Abstract: This essay begins with a brief review of the “troubled history” of the comparative method in anthropology in order to outline the various ways that the comparative method has been engaged within one discipline. Then it turns to a discussion of the importance of a comparative consciousness to the study of migration. Caroline Brettell argues that comparisons are essential if we are to avoid both national and temporal exceptionalism in our understanding of the causes and consequences of migration. She moves therefore from a theoretical and methodological approach formulated within a single discipline to its application in addressing an important problem in human experience that concerns scholars across a range of disciplines. Without comparative consciousness, differences are made more unique than they should be and similarities can be overstated.

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