Comparing Cultures - Innovations in Comparative Ethnography

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.

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: MICHAEL SCHNEGG, Schnegg Edward D. Lowe Michael Schnegg, Michael Schnegg, Michael (Universitat Hamburg) Lowe Schnegg, Michael Lowe Schnegg
• Collaboration: Edward D. Lowe (Editeur), Lowe Edward D. (Editeur), Michael Schnegg (Editeur), Schnegg Michael (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108720014
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72001-4
• Pages: 234
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Informatique, ordinateurs > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Sciences de la communication; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Data analysis: general, Data science and analysis: general, Research methods: general, Data science and analysis