Comparing Cultures - Innovations in Comparative Ethnography

Shows how comparative ethnographic methods can be successfully used to study important human concerns in anthropology.

List of contents

Introduction. Comparative ethnography: its promise, process, and successful implementations Edward D. Lowe and Michael Schnegg; Part I. Binary Comparisons: 1. Thinking with comparison in the anthropology/historical anthropology of migration Caroline B. Brettell; 2. Comparing tangerines: Dorothy Lee and the search for an authentic individualism Richard Handler; 3. A comparative ethnographic study of suicide epidemics in two Pacific Island societies Edward D. Lowe; Part II. Regional Comparisons: 4. The comparison of structures and the comparison of systems: Lévi-Strauss, Dumont, Luhmann Guido Sprenger; 5. Regional comparison in historical anthropology: three case examples from South Arabia Andre Gingrich; 6. Scaling ethnography up Michael Schnegg; Part III. Distant and Fluid Comparisons: 7. Best, worst, and good enough: lessons learned from multi-sited comparative ethnography Jennifer S. Hirsch, Holly Wardlow, Daniel Jordan Smith, Harriet Phinney, Shanti Parikh and Constance A. Nathanson; 8. Research across cultures and disciplines: methodological challenges in an interdisciplinary and comparative research project on emotion socialization Birgitt Röttger-Rössler; 9. Global sport industries, comparison, and economics of scales Niko Besnier and Daniel Guinness.

About the author

Michael Schnegg is Professor of Anthropology at Universität Hamburg.Edward D. Lowe is Professor of Anthropology at Soka University of America.

Summary

With contributions from a global spread of scholars, this book is a timely guide to comparative ethnographic methods and tools, allowing qualitative researchers in a range of social scientific fields, such as anthropology and sociology, to ensure that their work is more contextually sensitive, and theoretically robust.

Product details

• Authors: MICHAEL SCHNEGG, Schnegg Edward D. Lowe Michael Schnegg, Michael (Universitat Hamburg) Lowe Schnegg, Michael Lowe Schnegg
• Assisted by: Edward D Lowe (Editor), Edward D. Lowe (Editor), Lowe Edward D. (Editor), Michael Schnegg (Editor), Michael (Universitat Hamburg) Schnegg (Editor), Schnegg Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108487283
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48728-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Data analysis: general, Data science and analysis: general, Research methods: general