Thick Comparison ：Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration

Publication series ：1

Author： Scheffer   Thomas;Niewöhner   Jörg  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9789004183742

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004181137

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004181137

Subject： C95-0 Ethnological Theory and Methodology

Language： ENG

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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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Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Foreword

pp.：  7 – 8

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  9 – 12

Introduction Thickening Comparison: On the Multiple Facets of Comparability

pp.：  13 – 28

Chapter One Comparability on Shifting Grounds: How Legal Ethnography differs from Comparative Law

pp.：  29 – 54

Chapter Two Producing Multi-sited Comparability

pp.：  55 – 90

Chapter Three Re-describing Social Practices: Comparison as Analytical and Explorative Tool

pp.：  91 – 114

Chapter Four Producing Alternative Objects of Comparison in Healthcare: Following a Web-based Technology for Asthma Treatment through the Lab and the Clinic

pp.：  115 – 140

Chapter Five Contrasts and Comparisons: Three Practices of Forensic Investigation

pp.：  141 – 166

Chapter Six Comparison in the Wild and more Disciplined Usages of an Epistemic Practice

pp.：  167 – 192

Chapter Seven Making a Comparative Object

pp.：  193 – 206

Chapter Eight On Positionality and its Comparability in the Legal Context

pp.：  207 – 232

Index

pp.：  233 – 235

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