Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration

Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
22 March 2010
Pages
228
ISBN
9789004181137

Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration

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.

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