reviving the ethnographic aspiration
Edición de la obra Thick comparison
| Autor | Jörg Niewöhner |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Brill |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010 |
| Lugar | Boston |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 223 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004181137 |
| OCLC | 501176656 |
| LCCN | 2009053745 |
| Serie | International studies in sociology and social anthropology |
| Número de Cutter | N682t |
"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.