Thick comparison : reviving the ethnographic aspiration /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:International studies in sociology and social anthropology, 0074-8684 ; v. 114
International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 114.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11284090
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Other authors / contributors:Scheffer, Thomas, Dr.
Niewöhner, Jörg.
ISBN:9789004183742
9004183744
9789004181137
900418113X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Thick comparison. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004181137
Standard no.:9786612786570