Goffman a sociologist or an anthropologist?

So what I would like to diskuss in this blog today is Goffmans and wether he is a sociologist or an anthropologist.

First of all from an anthropologist point of view Goffman might be called a sociologist and one might criticise him for being to general as well as the main goal of his work being that he look for theories which can be stated to apply in general.
But he has also been called to emperical and micro social by sociologists, so which one is it?

Well if we go way back to what anthropologist Franz Boas suggested in the early 1900 in "the limitations of the comparative method", as you might guess from the title he is a particularist and thus we might expect to find a standpoint with wich we can criticize Goffman. But the thing is that Goffman uses so many emperical examples and leaves us under the impression that he has done a massive amount of emperical work prior to his general theories on "face" and "frame" so he actually does excactly what Boas suggests when he says that one should first describe a sufficient ammount of cases before one begins to compare them.

Another point, made by Hastrup among others, is that anthropology´s hallmark is its relatively long fieldwork, an argument that is perhaps made in order to make anthropology destinct from our sometimes more philosofical sibling sociology. If that is the case then ceartaintly Goffman is a sociologist unless doing fieldwork within ones one culture and gathering data herin is also anthropology?