Ellis is the leading writer in the move toward person, autobiographical writing as a strategy for academic research. In addition to 'Final Negotiations' and 'The Ethnographic I', she has written stories that highlight the emotional power and academic value of autoethnography. Th…
Ellis is the leading writer in the move toward person, autobiographical writing as a strategy for academic research. In addition to 'Final Negotiations' and 'The Ethnographic I', she has written stories that highlight the emotional power and academic value of autoethnography. Th…
Carolyn Ellis is a prominent writer in the move toward personal, reflexive writing as an approach to academic research. In addition to her landmark books Final Negotiations and The Ethnographic I, she has authored numerous stories that demonstrate the emotional power and academi…
Extrait de la couverture : " In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its mom…
Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the l…
This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing, they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism.
This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing, they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism.
Theory: space, signs, and bodies -- Myth-busting: writing collective identities in space -- Cultural literacy, resources, and social spaces -- Space and the overdetermination of "choice"--Oral narratives and constructing spatial selves -- Conclusion: cathedrals, prisons, and rev…
This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing, they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism.
