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SUMMARY:Comparative uncertainties: comparing comparisons in anthropology a
 nd animal behaviour science - Matei Candea (Division of Social Anthropolog
 y)
DTSTART:20161020T120000Z
DTEND:20161020T130000Z
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:Much has been made in recent years of the way in which anthrop
 ological confrontations with alterity can generate productive conceptual u
 ncertainty. This methodological device can be thought of as a type of 'fro
 ntal' comparison in which a 'them' position is confronted to an 'us' posit
 ion. This paper contrasts frontal comparison with lateral comparisons\, in
  which different cases are laid side by side. Frontal and lateral comparis
 ons produce different and complementary dynamics of conceptual uncertainty
  and productive doubt. This anthropological pair is in turn compared with 
 and read through two different ways of managing uncertainty in a different
  discipline: the study of animal behaviour.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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