ISBN:
9789004183742
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
International studies in sociology and social anthropology v. 114
Series Statement:
Brill ebook titles
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration
DDC:
305.80072
Keywords:
Ethnology Methodology
;
Ethnology Research
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004181137.i-223
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