Thick comparison
Subtitle: reviving the ethnographic aspiration
By: by Jorg Niewohner and Thomas Scheffer.
Contributors: Scheffer, Thomas.
Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9789004181137
Subjects: Ethnology -- Methodology; Ethnology -- Research
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.