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  • Introduction

  • Edited by Michael Schnegg, Universität Hamburg, Edward D. Lowe
  • Book:
    Comparing Cultures
    Published online:
    08 May 2020
    Print publication:
    28 May 2020, pp 1-20

  • Summary

    This introductory chapter provides an overview of comparative ethnographic research in anthropology as an explicit methodological strategy and organizing framework for the different chapters of this book. The chapter opens with a discussion of the enduring promise of comparative ethnographic research as well as its main challenges given late-twentieth-century disciplinary criticisms. It then provides a summary of the process and kinds of comparative ethnographic research. We argue that ethnographic comparisons in recent decades increasingly bridge the divide between particularistic approaches and more generalizing strategies used in the past. These configurational comparisons focus on understanding and explaining the diversity of social configurations across cases and scales and interpreting their cultural and historical significance. This introduction then discusses the contributions each chapter makes to the development of this comparative paradigm by providing examples of successful comparative ethnographic research in the contemporary milieu.

Comparing Cultures
  • Innovations in Comparative Ethnography
  • Edited by Michael Schnegg, Edward D. Lowe
  • Published online:
    08 May 2020
    Print publication:
    28 May 2020
  • 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.