Writing about the virtues of comparative history (and it’s problems). But it really highlights how we cannot look at cultural processes in a vacuum.
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Seconded. Surprisingly much scholarship is based on the assumption that what the scholar is interested in is new/unique, but often because they haven't looked earlier or next-door.
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Yes, I agree. I would also say that doing comparisons of things that have been done in isolation but never comparatively (or not very in-depth) can put things into perspective or illuminate things that would be otherwise missed.
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