Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration

Contributor(s): Sørensen, Estrid (Contribution by), Schmidt, Robert (Contribution by), Langstrup, Henriette (Contribution by), Winthereik, Brit Ross (Contribution by), M'Charek, Amade A (Contribution by), Amelang, Katrin (Contribution by), Beck, Stefan (Contribution by), Hannken-Illjes, Kati (Contribution by), Kozin, Alexander (Contribution by), Scheffer, Thomas (Volume Editor), Niewöhner, Jörg (Volume Editor)

ISBN: 9789004181137

Publisher: Brill

Hardcover

$168.00

Pub Date: March 22, 2010

Dewey: 305.80072

LCCN: 2009053745

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 9.70" L x 6.60" W ( 1.20 lbs) 228 pages

BISAC Categories:

Social Science | Sociology | General | Anthropology | Cultural and Social

Series: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: 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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