In: International studies in sociology and social anthropology v. 114
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Preliminary Material /T. Scheffer and J. Niewöhner -- Introduction Thickening Comparison: On The Multiple Facets Of Comparability /Jörg Niewöhner and Thomas Scheffer -- Chapter One. Comparability On Shifting Grounds: How Legal Ethnography Differs From Comparative Law /Thomas Scheffer -- Chapter Two. Producing Multi-Sited Comparability /Estrid Sørensen -- Chapter Three. Re-Describing Social Practices: Comparison As Analytical And Explorative Too /Robert Schmidtl -- Chapter Four. Producing Alternative Objects Of Comparison In Healthcare: Following A Web-Based Technology For Asthma Treatment Through The Lab And The Clinic /Henriette Langstrup and Brit Ross Winthereik -- Chapter Five. Contrasts And Comparisons: Three Practices Of Forensic Investigation /Amade M'Charek -- Chapter Six. Comparison In The Wild And More Disciplined Usages Of An Epistemic Practice /Katrin Amelang and Stefan Beck -- Chapter Seven. Making A Comparative Object /Kati Hannken-Illjes -- Chapter Eight. On Positionality And Its Comparability In The Legal Context /Alexander V. Kozin -- Index /T. Scheffer and J. Niewöhner.
In: International studies in sociology and social anthropology vol. 114
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
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