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The Ethnographic I:

A Methodological Novel About Autoethnography
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Rowman Altamira, 2004 - Education - 427 pages
A methodological textbook on autoethnography should be easily distinguishable from the standard methods text. Carolyn Ellis, the leading proponent of these methods, does not disappoint. She weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories into an intriguing narrative about a fictional graduate course she instructs. In it, you learn about her students and their projects and understand the wide array of topics and strategies that fall under the label autoethnography. 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. Anyone who has taken or taught a course on ethnography will recognize these issues and appreciate Ellis's humanistic, personal, and literary approach toward incorporating them into her work. A methods text or a novel? The Ethnographic 'I' answers yes to both.
  

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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

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

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Contents

Introductions and Interruptions
1
Getting over the Syllabus
2
Introductions
5
From Sociology to Communication from Ethnography to Autoethnography
9
Living and Writing Final Negotiations
18
CrossStatus Relationships Revisited
21
The Call of Autoethnographic Stories
24
Contextualizing Autoethnography within Ethnography
25
ArtsBased Autoethnography
215
The Storyteller
216
Final Projects
219
An Autoethnography of Abuse
220
The Complexity of CrossRacial Relationships
224
Empathy Identification and Reflexivity in Fieldwork
227
The Challenge of Breast Cancer and LongTerm Survival
231
The Death of a Father
234

An Introduction
31
Definition and History
37
The Term of Choice
41
Autoethnographic Approaches
45
Mentoring Autoethnographic Projects
52
Performing Relationships
53
How We Met
54
Autoethnography in Interview Research
58
Reflexive Etyadic Interviews
61
Interactive Interviewing
64
Connecting with Autoethnography
69
Coconstructed Narrative
71
Responding to Abortion
77
Abortion Revisited
82
Autoethnographic Projects Putting the Self into Research
86
CrossRacial Relationships
89
Discovering Messianic Judaism and Experiencing the Spiritual
92
Not Everyone Can Write Evocative Autoethnography
98
Losing a Father and Constructing a Story
99
Performing Domestic Abuse
102
Becoming Latino
104
Retreating to Silence
106
Revealing Is Painful
107
The Pain of Revealing
109
Writing Field Notes Interviews and Stories Issues of Memory and Truth
112
Getting It Off My Chest and Living with Breast Cancer Survival
113
Teaching Autoethnography
119
Emotions Politics and Social Change
120
From Accuracy to Memory to Truth
122
Life Seeps into Work
127
Writing Therapeutically Vulnerably Evocatively and Ethically
130
Maternal Connections
132
Writing Therapeutically
135
Making Ourselves Vulnerable
137
Writing Evocatively
140
Life Becomes Work
143
What about Ethics?
144
Sometimes You Need an Escape
155
Living Autoetlmography Life Informs Work Informs Life
156
Life Becomes PerformancePerformance Becomes Life
157
Life Ends Work Begins
162
Rereading
163
Studying OthersStudying Ourselves
166
Communicating about Death
167
Writing as Inquiry
169
Our WorkOur Selves
171
Bringing It Back Up
174
Breaking Hearts
176
Framing a Story
178
Revisions and Endings
179
Raising Eyebrows and Running for Cover
181
Artful Autoethnography
184
Autoethnographic Forms of Writing
193
Autoethnography as CAP Ethnography
194
Reciting Poetry
201
Performing Autoethnography
206
Autoethnography Online
212
Multivoiced and Mixed Genre
214
Searching the Spirit
237
LatinoWhite Bicultural Identity
240
Work Spills into Personal Lives Anger in Relationships
244
Evaluating and Publishing Autoethnography
249
Criteria for Evaluating Autoethnographic Projects
252
Institutional Review Boards
256
Getting Published
261
Dealing with Rejection
264
Taking Autoethnographic Research to a Domestic Abuse Shelter
269
Writing a Story of Multiple Viewpoints and Feelings
271
A Case of Working against Domestic Violence
272
Autoethnographic Conversations about Autoethnography
284
Interview with Judy Perry
285
Doing Autoethnographic Research on Family Members
286
Using Autoethnography to Understand the Perspective of Others
287
MentorMentee Relationships
289
Interview with Valerie Macleod
292
Confidentiality and Family Members
293
Role of Autoethnography
294
Autoethnography and Therapy
296
Literary Agents
297
Interview with Penny Phillips
300
Experiencing the Moment
301
Revisiting the CASA Story
302
Exploring Autoethnography and Real Life
303
Interview with Laura Ellingson
307
Embodied Writing
308
Autoethnographic Connections
310
Mixed Genres and Methods
312
Interview with Leigh Berger
314
Embracing Autoethnography
316
The Autoethnographic Experience
318
Autoethnography and Sensationalism
319
Interview with Hector
322
Reactions to Being a Character
323
Representing Family Uncritically
324
Critical Representation of Structure and Power
325
Incorporating Autoethnography
327
Writing a Methodological Novel Thinking Like an Ethnographer Writing Like a Novelist
330
Thinking Like an Ethnographer
333
Writing Like a Novelist
335
Developing Plot
337
Selecting and Developing Characters
338
Scene Setting
342
Dialogue
343
Cocreating a Text
344
Giving Acknowledgment
345
Ending and BeginningExamining and Living
347
Suggested Readings and Assignments
351
Chart of Impressionist and Realist Ethnography
359
Guidelines for Personal Writing Papers
365
Editing Personal Narratives
369
Notes
371
References
389
Name Index
413
Subject Index
419
About the Author
427
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About the author (2004)

Carolyn Ellis is professor of communication and sociology in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness (1995) and coeditor (with Arthur Bochner) of Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing (1996), Ethnographically Speaking: Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics (2002), and the AltaMira book series Ethnographic Alternatives.

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TitleThe Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel About Autoethnography
Volume 13 of Ethnographic alternatives book series
Volume 1 of The ethnographic
AuthorCarolyn Ellis
Edition13, illustrated
PublisherRowman Altamira, 2004
ISBN0759100519, 9780759100510
Length427 pages
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