The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel About Autoethnography: No. 1 (The Ethnographic: A Methodological Novel About Autoethnography) - Tapa dura

This is a masterful book that tells a compelling tale about a master class in ethnography taught by a master teacher and scholar on the subject. Carolyn Ellis, in a stroke of genius, adopts the form of a novel to write an imaginative, emotionally rich, and methodologically layered account of teaching the one course that everyone in our field wishes they could take from the one person they wish they could take it with. And now, with this wonderful book, we can. It is not just the story form and truly original voice that separates this text from any competition. It is the undeniable fact that chapter-by-chapter readers gain the knowledge and skills that will help them become personal ethnographers as well as invites them into ongoing scholarly conversations that frequently question as much as advocate them. By the time I finished The Ethnographic I, the wisdom of using fiction to show us what goes on in her course and in the complex and often conflicted lives of students and teachers constructing it was abundantly clear. What better way to teach methods than by working them into and through the lives of those who use them? For all of these good reasons, this book is a genuine page turner and will undoubtedly have profound influences on how we think about teaching personal ethnography.--H. L. Goodall, Univ of North Carolina, Greensboro

Autoethnography takes place when the researcher looks inward as well as outward, making connections between his or her personal life and the cultural, social, and political realms. Aimed at students and other researchers, this text describes the process of doing and writing autoethnography. Ellis (c