Autoethnography: An overview

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ellis, Carolyn ^a   Adams, Tony E ^b   Bochner, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Co constructed narratives; Ethnography; Interactive interviews; Narrative; Narrative ethnographies; Personal narrative; Relational ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649757846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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