Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration

by Estrid Sørensen (Brand), Robert Schmidt (Contributor), Henriette Ross Langstrup (Contributor)

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.

240 pages, CD-ROM

First published April 5, 2010