Comparing comparing: exercises in stretching – concepts

IntroductionThis paper is a response to the editors’ invitation to reflect on my experience of a number of comparative research projects undertaken in the last three decades. It is therefore overly self-referential and has no pretensions to survey or examine comparative methods in general.The guidi...

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Päätekijä: Harvey, Mark
Aineistotyyppi: Article ou chapitre numérique
Julkaistu: Anthropology of food 2014
Linkit:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Yhteenveto:IntroductionThis paper is a response to the editors’ invitation to reflect on my experience of a number of comparative research projects undertaken in the last three decades. It is therefore overly self-referential and has no pretensions to survey or examine comparative methods in general.The guiding principle of my comparative research has been to stretch concepts by empirically exploring very diverse fields, in different social and societal contexts, with a focus on processes of change: tr...