Thick comparison : reviving the ethnographic aspiration
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Thick comparison : reviving the ethnographic aspiration
（International studies in sociology and social anthropology, v. 114）
Brill, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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, Joerg Niewoehner, Thomas Scheffer, Robert Schmidt, Estrid Sorensen, and Britt Ross Winthereik.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Thickening Comparison: On the Multiple Facets of Comparability, Joerg Niewoehner & Thomas Scheffer
1. Comparability on Shifting Grounds: How Legal Ethnography differs from Comparative Law, Thomas Scheffer
2. Producing Multi-sited Comparability, Estrid Sorensen
3. Re-describing Social Practices: Comparison as Analytical and Explorative Tool, Robert Schmidt
4. Producing Alternative Objects of Comparison in Healthcare: Following a Web-based Technology for Asthma Treatment through the Lab and the Clinic, Henriette Langstrup & Brit Ross Winthereik
5. Contrasts and Comparisons: Three Practices of Forensic Investigations, Amade M'charek
6. Comparison in the Wild and more Disciplined Usages of an Epistemic Practice, Katrin Amelang & Stefan Beck
7. Making a Comparative Object, Kati Hannken-Illjes
8. On Positionality and its Comparability in the Legal Context, Alex Kozin
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