Thick comparison : reviving the ethnographic aspiration

Thick comparison : reviving the ethnographic aspiration / edited by Thomas Scheffer and Jörg Niewöhner.

In ethnographic inquiry, comparing is fraught with difficulties, never complete and often fails. Yet it remains a strangely productive mode of working. "Thick comparison" develops and reflects on the production of comparability as a fruitful process in ethnographic research.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Scheffer, Thomas, Dr, Niewöhner, Jörg
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 114.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Methodology.
Ethnology > Research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnology > Methodology
Ethnology > Research
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Summary:In ethnographic inquiry, comparing is fraught with difficulties, never complete and often fails. Yet it remains a strangely productive mode of working. "Thick comparison" develops and reflects on the production of comparability as a fruitful process in ethnographic research.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004183742
9004183744
9789004181137
900418113X
ISSN:0074-8684 ;
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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