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Thick comparison : reviving the ethnographic aspiration /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | International studies in sociology and social anthropology ;
v. 114. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.