"Francio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist by vocation, he is a keen observer by honed habit. In his new book, he wields both personal and anthropological observations. Simultaneously memoir and astute exploration, Black Man i…
Handbook of autoethnography
"The second edition of this seminal text in the field of autoethnography considers the development and establishing of a fast-moving discipline since the publication of the first edition. Seven of the original handbook chapters are revised; the rest are original contributions an…
Autoethnography is an ideal method to study the 'feminist I'. Through personal stories, the author reflects on how feminists negotiate agency and the effect this has on one's political sensibilities. Speaking about oneself transforms into stories of political responsibility - a …
Showcasing a new methodology in language learning and identity research, this carefully conceptualized, innovative book explicates the use of autoethnography as a way of re-imagining one's sense of linguistic and cultural identity. A key work for researchers and students in Appl…
Showcasing a new methodology in language learning and identity research, this carefully conceptualized, innovative book explicates the use of autoethnography as a way of re-imagining one's sense of linguistic and cultural identity. A key work for researchers and students in Appl…
Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination.?Sculpting the Woman? interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. This highly original …
Autoethnography
by Ellis, Carolyn, Holman Jones, Stacy Linn, Adams, Tony E.
fromUnderstanding qualitative research
"Autoethnography is a method of research that involves describing and analyzing personal experiences in order to understand cultural experiences. The method challenges canonical ways of doing research and recognizes how personal experience influences the research process. Autoet…
"This book explores the substantive, field-defining and paradigm-changing work of Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis. Scholars show through their writing and storytelling the influence of the work of Bochner and Ellis on both the field of autoethnography, and their individual rese…