Thick comparison : reviving the ethnographic aspiration / edited by Jorg Niewohner and Thomas Scheffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niewöhner, Jörg.

Contributor:

Scheffer, Thomas.

Series:

International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; vol. 114.

International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; vol. 114

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / T. Scheffer and J. Niewöhner

Introduction Thickening Comparison: On The Multiple Facets Of Comparability / Jörg Niewöhner and Thomas Scheffer

Chapter One. Comparability On Shifting Grounds: How Legal Ethnography Differs From Comparative Law / Thomas Scheffer

Chapter Two. Producing Multi-Sited Comparability / Estrid Sørensen

Chapter Three. Re-Describing Social Practices: Comparison As Analytical And Explorative Too / Robert Schmidtl

Chapter Four. Producing Alternative Objects Of Comparison In Healthcare: Following A Web-Based Technology For Asthma Treatment Through The Lab And The Clinic / Henriette Langstrup and Brit Ross Winthereik

Chapter Five. Contrasts And Comparisons: Three Practices Of Forensic Investigation / Amade M’Charek

Chapter Six. Comparison In The Wild And More Disciplined Usages Of An Epistemic Practice / Katrin Amelang and Stefan Beck

Chapter Seven. Making A Comparative Object / Kati Hannken-Illjes

Chapter Eight. On Positionality And Its Comparability In The Legal Context / Alexander V. Kozin

Index / T. Scheffer and J. Niewöhner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-78657-1

9786612786570

90-04-18374-4

OCLC:

667295684

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004181137.i-223 DOI