Thick Comparison - Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, 114
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	March 2010
Contributors:	Estrid Sorensen • Robert Schmidt • Henriette Langstrup • Brit Ross Winthereik • Amade A M'Charek • Katrin Amelang • Stefan Beck • Kati Hannken-Illjes • Alexander Kozin
Volume editors:	Thomas Scheffer
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-18113-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	90-04-18113-X
Barcode:	9789004181137

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