Carolyn Ellis, the leading proponent of autoethnography, weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories into an intriguing narrative about a fictional graduate course she instructs. Through Ellis's interactions with her students, you are given useful strategies for conducting a study, including the need for introspection, the struggles of the budding ethnographic writer, the practical problems in explaining results of this method to outsiders, and the moral and ethical issues that get raised in this intimate form of research.
Author(s): Carolyn Ellis
Series: Ethnographic Alternatives Book Series
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 448
The Ethnographic I......Page 1
Contents......Page 4
Cast of Characters......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
Introductions and Interruotions......Page 11
The Call of Autoethnographic Stories......Page 23
Autoethnography in Interview Research......Page 40
Autoethnographic Projects : Putting the Self into Research......Page 54
Writing Field Notes, Interviews, and Stories: Issue of Memory and Truth......Page 67
Writing Therapeutically, Vulnerably, Evocatively, and Ethically......Page 76
Living AutoEthnography: Life Informs Work Informs life......Page 89
Writing as Inquiry......Page 95
Artful Autoethnography......Page 103
Autoethnographic forms of Writing......Page 107
Final Projects......Page 120
Evaluating and publishing Autoethnography......Page 135
Taking Autoethnographic : Research t oa Domestic Abuse Shelter......Page 145
Autoethnographic conversations about Autoethnography......Page 153
Writing Methodological Novel : Thinking Like an Ethnographer, Writing Like a Novelist......Page 176
Suggested Readings and Assignments for an Autoethnography Class......Page 186
Chart of Impressionist and Realist Ethnography......Page 190
Guidelines for Personal Writing Papers......Page 193
Editing Personal Narratives......Page 195
Notes......Page 196
References......Page 205
Name Index......Page 217
Subject Index......Page 220
About the Auther......Page 224
