Thick comparison : reviving the ethnographic aspiration /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:	xi, 223 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 114 International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 114.
Subject:	Ethnology -- Methodology. Ethnology -- Research. Ethnology -- Methodology. Ethnology -- Research.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8005034

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Other authors / contributors:	Scheffer, Thomas, Dr. Niewöhner, Jörg.
ISBN:	9789004181137 (hardback : alk. paper) 900418113X (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Thickening Comparison: On the Multiple Facets of Comparability
Chapter 1. Comparability on Shifting Grounds: How Legal Ethnography differs from Comparative Law
Chapter 2. Producing Multi-sited Comparability
Chapter 3. Re-describing Social Practices: Comparison as Analytical and Explorative Tool
Chapter 4. Producing Alternative Objects of Comparison in Healthcare: Following a Web-based Technology for Asthma Treatment through the Lab and the Clinic
Chapter 5. Contrasts and Comparisons: Three Practices of Forensic Investigation
Chapter 6. Comparison in the Wild and more Disciplined Usages of an Epistemic Practice
Chapter 7. Making a Comparative Object
Chapter 8. On Positionality and its Comparability in the Legal Context
Index

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