Autoethnography: An overview

Historical Social Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 273-290

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

^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: 80455140442     PISSN: 01726404     EISSN: 09366784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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