Productive tensions: Ethnographic engagement, complexity, and contradiction

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 483-497

  Chapkis, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

autoethnography; bias; body image; drugs; personal engagement; sexuality; situated knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956645303     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241610375278     Document Type: Article

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