The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography
by:
Carolyn Ellis (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780759100510 (0759100519)
Publish date: December 27th 2003
Publisher: Altamira Press
Edition language: English
Series: Ethnographic Alternatives