Comparing Ethnographies
Comparing Ethnographies

Author: Kathyrn Anderson-Levitt

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0935302689

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Comparing Ethnographies presents cross-national comparisons that give researchers and students a fresh look at familiar concepts. How does it matter, for example, to think in terms of "majorities" rather than "minorities, "migrants" rather than "immigrants, or"intercultural education" rather than "multicultural education"? How does indigenous education or the work of teachers look different to ethnographers from differnt countries of the Americas? This engaging new volume edited by Kathryn Anderson-Levitt and Elsie Rockwell includes essays from experts throughout the Americas which help readers understand and learn from ethnographic educational research conducted across the Western Hemisphere, and also includes a practical guide to finding the relevant literature.

Dislocating Masculinity
Dislocating Masculinity

Author: Andrea Cornwall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1134896743

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This book draws upon anthropology, feminism and postmodernism to offer a penetrating and challenging study of how gender operates. The book offers a radical critique of much of the recent writing on and by men and raises important questions about emodiment, agency and the variety of masculine styles.

Hope and Insufficiency
Hope and Insufficiency

Author: Rachel Douglas-Jones

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-09-17

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1800731019

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A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept’s role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Ethnographies of Deservingness
Ethnographies of Deservingness

Author: Jelena Tošić

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-08-12

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1800735995

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Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology. This edited collection provides a novel and systematic conceptualization of Deservingness and shows how it can serve as a prime and integrative conceptual prism to ethnographically explore transforming welfare states, regimes of migration, as well as capitalist social reproduction and relations at large.

Comparing Cultures
Comparing Cultures

Author: Michael Schnegg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1108487289

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

Ecologies of Comparison
Ecologies of Comparison

Author: Timothy K. Choy

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-10-17

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0822349523

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DIVAn anthropological study of the surge of environmentalist activity in the years surrounding Hong Kong's transfer from British to Chinese sovereignty./div

Comparison in Anthropology
Comparison in Anthropology

Author: Matei Candea

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1108474608

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Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.

Beyond the Case
Beyond the Case

Author: Corey M. Abramson

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 019060848X

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The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is conducted in divergent ethnographic approaches. In Beyond the Case, Corey M. Abramson and Neil Gong have gathered together several experts in field research to address these issues by showing how practitioners employing contemporary iterations of ethnographic traditions such as phenomenology, grounded theory, positivism, and interpretivism, use comparison in their works. The contributors connect the long history of comparative (and anti-comparative) ethnographic approaches to their contemporary uses. By honing in on how ethnographers render sites, groups, or cases analytically commensurable and comparable, Beyond the Case offers a new lens for examining the assumptions, payoffs, and potential drawbacks of different forms of comparative ethnography.

Learning from Comparing: new directions in comparative education research
Learning from Comparing: new directions in comparative education research

Author: Robin Alexander

Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1873927584

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'Learning from Comparing' is a major two-volume study which reassesses the contribution of comparative educational research and theory to our understanding of contemporary educational problems and to our capacity to solve them. At a time when educational research is under attack on the grounds of ‘bias’ and ‘irrelevance’, and under pressure to address only those questions which are acceptable politically (as good a definition of bias as any), this is a serious attempt to bridge the worlds of research, policy and practice. The editors have put together a collection – in terms of both perspective and nationality – which ensures contrasting viewpoints on each topic.

A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces
A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces

Author: Esther Fihl

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-01-07

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1137299541

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Through ethnographical cases, this book examines the ways in which social groups position themselves between cultures, states, moralities, and local/state authorities, creating opportunities for agency. Alternative spaces designate in-between spaces rather than oppositional structures and are both inside and outside their constituent elements.