The book's seven chapters are geared, slippingly, to the difficulties found when comparing cultures or religions.
One major obstacle when comparing cultures is problems of translation.
Imagine comparing such radically different cultures and then applying the findings to Long Island!
Thanks to this experience, I have stopped trying to compare cultures and have learned instead to appreciate each for its own absolute, intrinsic value.
One of the features of the various subsequent attempts to measure our contentment levels is the difficulty in comparing different cultures and nations.
Wissler wanted to compare different cultures, but in order to do that he first needed to define what a culture is.
Wissler was trying to make cultural anthropology more scientific by forming a definition of culture that could be used to compare similar or different cultures.
No, not ethnology, the branch of anthropology that compares cultures; ethology, the study of animal behavior.
When comparing cultures at the same dose, the longer the cells were exposed to gambogic acid, the higher the growth inhibition.
The clearest illustrations of the relative nature of crime can be seen by comparing distinct and different cultures.