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"Comparing the incomparable" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Toward a constructive comparativism: between historians and anthropologists
• 2- Should an anthropologist happen to meet a historian
• 3- 'A traveller everywhere'
• 4- The confrontation between Greeks and Americans
• 5- The blemishes of nationalism
• 6- Those 'without writing', 'without history'
• 7- Saint Marc Bloch
• 8- How should the history of England be written today?
• 9- And in Germany?
• 10- Toward a more just and egalitarian society of historians
• 11- Working together
• 12- Constructing comparables
• 13- Singular and plural
• 14- The shock of the incomparable
• 15- The art of coining something new
• 16- Mechanisms of thought
• 17- Passing from autochthony to refoundation
• 18- What is the use of comparison?
• 19- Setting a variety of regimes of hisroicity in perspective
• 20- 'Be wary of history'
• 21- Historical memory and thought
• 22- The configurations of change
• 23- The colours of the past
• 24- An obstacle to thinking of the past as something other than the present: Homer
• 25- Working on one's own traditions
• 26- Experimenting in the field of polytheisms
• 27- 'The fact of structure', with Georges Dumézil
• 28- Models of Zeus
• 29- The limits to 'how a god intervenes'
• 30- Begin with groupings of gods
• 31- Concrete objects used as 'litmus papers'
• 32- The foot of Apollo, the strides of Hermes and the foundation stones of Poseidon
• 33- In the intimacy of the house of Delphi
• 34- Manipulate! Obtain reactions!
• 35- From assembly practices to forms of politics: a comparative approach
• 36- Multiple beginnings
• 37- Concrete practices
• 38- Communal affairs
• 39- Fashioning a place in which to speak
• 40- A democracy invented in Africa
• 41- Assembling and giving form to the res publica
• 42- Notaries, scribes and messengers: modes of publicity
• 43- Writing down the law and making it speak
• 44- Places of equality and types of men.

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