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The ethnographic I:

a methodological novel about autoethnography
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AltaMira Press, Jun 15, 2004 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 427 pages
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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Review: The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography (Ethnographic Alternatives)

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I appreciate the author's effort to make research methods and ethics more accessible to novice scholars. Unfortunately, the attempt fell flat. There seemed too much attention to making it a "novel ... Read full review

Review: The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography (Ethnographic Alternatives)

User Review - Goodreads

This text performs what she asks ethnographers to do. It was interesting food for thought when I was writing my own autoethnography.

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From Sociology to Communication
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The Call of Autoethnographic Stories
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Definition and History
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