Contributions

  • Scheffer, Thomas. - Contributor

Publication

2010 - Brill, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

55,750 words, Guess

Page Count

223 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • Better World Books9789004181137

Classifications

  • DDC305.80072
  • LCCGN345 .N53 2010
  • LCCGN345.N53 2010
and 1 more
  • LCCGN345 .T45 2010

Description

"We have come a long way from Evans-Pritchard's famous dictum that "there is only one method in social anthropology, the comparative method - and that is impossible." Yet a good 40 years later, qualitative social inquiry still has an uneasy relationship with comparison. This volume sets out "thick comparison" as a means to revive "comparing" as a productive process in ethnographic work: a process that helps to revitalise the articulation work inherent in analytical ethnographies; to vary observer perspectives and point towards "blind spots;" to name and create "new things" and modes of empirical work and to give way to intensified dialogues between data analysis and theorizing. Contributors are Katrin Amelang, Stefan Beck, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin, Henriette Langstrup, Jörg Niewöhner, Thomas Scheffer, Robert Schmidt, Estrid Sørensen, and Britt Ross Winthereik."--Publisher's website.

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  • Thick comparison: reviving the ethnographic aspirationBrill2010-01-01

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