Performing Autoethnography: An Embodied Methodological Praxis

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 706-732

  Spry, Tami ^a  

^a ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85032070230     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107780040100700605     Document Type: Article

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