Daniella Kuzmanovic - Qualitative Analysis in the Making

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Qualitative analysis in the making / edited by Daniella Kuzmanovic and

Andreas Bandak.

pages cm. (Routledge advances in research methods ; 11)

1. Social sciencesResearch. 2. HumanitiesResearch.

3. Qualitative research. I. Kuzmanovic, Daniella, 1972 II. Bandak,
Andreas.

H62.Q3417 2014
001.42dc23
2014022894

ISBN: 978-0-415-83673-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-37977-6 (ebk)

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ANDREAS BANDAK AND DANIELLA KUZMANOVIC

BIRGITTE POSSING

MARGIT WARBURG

KIRSTEN THISTED

4 Ideal Analysis: From Horizontal Clustering to Vertical
Analytical Integration

DANIELLA KUZMANOVIC

5 Messianic Analysis: Eliciting Potentials by Juxtaposing
Difference

LARS HJER

6 Employed to Abbreviate: On Humanitarian Agency and
Anthropological Analysis

ANDERS HASTRUP

BIRGITTE SCHEPELERN JOHANSEN

8 The Struggles of a Bricoleur: Mingling with
Ethnographical Museum Objects

ESTHER FIHL

MIRIAM KOKTVEDGAARD ZEITZEN

10 Making Sound Analysis: From Raw Moments to
Attuned Perspectives

ANDREAS BANDAK

JOEL ROBBINS

This book grew out of a course given at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. The idea for the course was first conceived by the two editors in the autumn of 2007 as a response to a pertinent question on part of our students, namely, what is analysis and how do you make it, and more importantly how do you make a good analysis? The idea was to invite different scholars to present and analyze one of their previously published analyses in a lecture series. Before each lecture several key texts, chosen by the invited scholar due to their significance for his or her analytical work, were circulated and discussed by the students and one of the editors of this book. Hereupon followed the lecture where the scholar engaged with the stakes of analysis both in the published form and in the opening up of it again with some distance in time. We are very grateful for the opportunity to have gotten a glimpse into the great many analytical laboratories and for the critical engagement from the scholars who have participated over time. Our thanks extend not only to the contributors to this edited volume, but also to those who contributed on the course without ending up being part of this book. Thanks are due to all of our students who tested the format and offered highly valuable criticism and insights during the courses. In making the transition from course to an edited volume we were generously funded by the collective research project Alternative Spaces chaired by Esther Fihl and Jens Dahl. We are grateful for the means both to make subsequent workshops and seminars on the theme for the contributors to this volume, as well as to have the book copy edited. Elaine Bolton provided erudite work in this latter regard. For our introduction we were offered very insightful comments by our contributors at an early stage of the process at one of our workshops. In a later stage we were much aided by highly valuable readings by Lars Hjer, Birgitte Schepelern Johansen, and Birgitte Possing. We also want to thank Amira Mittermaier for allowing us to use her acknowledgments in our introduction. Joel Robbins at an early stage supported the idea of the edited volume, and we are very happy that he accepted our invitation to write an afterword. It is our sincere hope that this edited volume will inspire scholars and students to develop new means to address what making analysis is.