Doing-it-yourself: Autoethnography of manual work

Ethnologia Europaea

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-64

  Ehn, Billy ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Non verbal experience; Observation; Reflexivity; Self narratives; Working knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555219656     PISSN: 04254597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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