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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2020
      May 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108766388
      9781108487283
      9781108720014
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766388
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 234 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 234 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Qualitative Research Methods, Anthropology
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Qualitative Research Methods, Anthropology
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    Book description

    A new and important contribution to the re-emergent field of comparative anthropology, this book argues that comparative ethnographic methods are essential for more contextually sophisticated accounts of a number of pressing human concerns today. The book includes expert accounts from an international team of scholars, showing how these methods can be used to illuminate important theoretical and practical projects. Illustrated with examples of successful inter-disciplinary projects, it highlights the challenges, benefits, and innovative strategies involved in working collaboratively across disciplines. Through its focus on practical methodological and logistical accounts, it will be of value to both seasoned researchers who seek practical models for conducting their own cutting-edge comparative research, and to teachers and students who are looking for first-person accounts of comparative ethnographic research.

    Reviews

    'Comparison is almost as fundamental to the human mind as air and water is to the body. It is therefore puzzling and paradoxical that anthropology, which was founded as an explicitly comparative discipline, has often been ambivalent, reluctant and even hostile to comparative research. This extremely timely book reinstates comparison as a key element in anthropological theory and methodology, demonstrating a variety in comparative strategies which reflect the diversity of anthropology itself and, indeed, the human world. Highly recommended.'

    Thomas Hylland Eriksen - University of Oslo

    ‘This book engages with a welcome and timely project: restoring comparative perspectives to anthropology. By exploring the challenges, dimensions, and complexities of comparative methodologies, it illustrates how critical comparisons can inform theory and illuminate underlying political economic and institutional processes.'

    Nina Glick Schiller - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

    ‘A thoughtful, subtle guide to a critical, but often neglected, anthropological approach.’

    Rob Borofsky Source: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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