Autoethnography: an overview

Abstract: "Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience. This approach challenges canonical ways of doing research and representing others and treats research as a political, socially-just and socially-conscious act. A researcher uses tenets of autobiography and ethnography to do and write autoethnography. Thus, as a method, autoethnography is both process and product." (author's abstract)

Object Details

• Alternative title: Autoethnografie: ein Überblick
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Autoethnography: an overview ; volume:36 ; number:4 ; year:2011 ; pages:273-290 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research ; 36, Heft 4 (2011), 273-290

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Ellis, Carolyn ; Adams, Tony E. ; Bochner, Arthur P.

Further information

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.36.2011.4.273-290
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-363237
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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