Beyond the Case

This stimulative book will make its readers think anew about the pitfalls, profits, and promise of comparison in ethnography. * Loïc Wacquant, author of Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer *
An exciting and much needed volume, Beyond the Case is the first major work in decades to spot-light comparative ethnography and the wide-ranging pluralistic developments over time. Chapter contributors-both the legendary and the new generations-pass on insights,techniques, methods, and logics of various approaches. Both beginners and experiencedethnographers will be inspired by the theoretical potential of comparative casing * Diane Vaughan, Columbia University *
An essential and usable volume for reconnecting today the ethnographic case study to the historic ambitions for it in designs of broad scale comparison. * George E. Marcus, author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin *
Perhaps the hottest topic in contemporary ethnographic research is the possibility, the value, and the drawbacks of comparative ethnography. In Beyond the Case, Corey Abramson and Neil Gong and their well-chosen authors provide a diverse set of explanations for how and when comparative ethnographies advance description, theory, and policy analysis. This is a book that will stand the methodological test of time and every field researcher will wish to consider its arguments for their own projects and for those of their students. * Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University *