| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Methodology.
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Ethnology -- Research
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Ethnology -- Methodology
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Ethnology -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scheffer, Thomas, Dr.
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Niewöhner, Jörg.
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| ISBN |
9789004183742 |
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9004183744 |
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9789004181137 |
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900418113X |
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