Ethnography in a time of blurred genres

Anthropology and Humanism

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-155

  Behar, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Blurred genres; Ethnographic writing; History of anthropology; Reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952301791     PISSN: 15599167     EISSN: 15481409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2007.32.2.145     Document Type: Article

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