| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
International studies in sociology and social anthropology,
0074-8684 ;
v. 114
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International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 114.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Contents; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Thickening Comparison: On the Multiple Facets of Comparability; Chapter One Comparability on Shifting Grounds: How Legal Ethnography differs from Comparative Law; Chapter Two Producing Multi-sited Comparability; Chapter Three Re-describing Social Practices: Comparison as Analytical and Explorative Tool; Chapter Four Producing Alternative Objects of Comparison in Healthcare: Following a Web-based Technology for Asthma Treatment through the Lab and the Clinic. |
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Chapter Five Contrasts and Comparisons: Three Practices of Forensic InvestigationChapter Six Comparison in the Wild and more Disciplined Usages of an Epistemic Practice; Chapter Seven Making a Comparative Object; Chapter Eight On Positionality and its Comparability in the Legal Context; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Methodology.
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Ethnology -- Methodology. |
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Ethnology -- Research.
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Ethnology -- Research. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Scheffer, Thomas, Dr.
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Niewöhner, Jörg.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thick comparison. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004181137 (DLC) 2009053745 (OCoLC)501176656 |
| ISBN |
9789004183742 (electronic book) |
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9004183744 (electronic book) |
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9789004181137 (cloth) |
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900418113X (cloth) |
| Standard No. |
9786612786570 |
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