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This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate encounter. Drawing from disciplines as diverse as sociology, philosophy, performance studies, communication, family therapy, and English, the authors here demonstrate the many ways in which ethnography can be effectively conducted and expressed. The editors weave narrative and conversations surrounding the conference from which these pieces emerged into a reflexive volume which includes poetry, stories, theatre, and visual media as well as critical pieces. Accessible and jargon free, this book should excite scholars and students as to the expanding possibilities for ethnographic presentation.

Table of Contents

Part 1 BEFORE
Chapter 2 How Does a Conference Begin?
Part 3 OPENING
Chapter 4 Ethnographic Representation as Relationship
Part 5 CULTURE EMBODIED: PERFORMING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
Chapter 6 For Father and Son: An Ethnodrama with No Catharsis
Chapter 7 The Way We Were, Are, and Might Be: Torch Singing as Autoethnography
Chapter 8 Making A Mess and Spreading it Around: Articulation of An Approach to Research-Based Theatre
Chapter 9 Interlude: Breaking Habits and Cultivating Home
Part 10 WOUNDED STORYTELLERS: VULNERABILITY, IDENTITY, AND NARRATIVE
Chapter 11 Stories that Conform/Stories that Transform: A Conversation in Four Parts
Chapter 12 Part I: Autoethnographies: Constraints, Openings, Ontologies, and Endings
Chapter 13 My Father's Shoes: The Therapeutic Value of Narrative Reframing
Chapter 14 Part 2. Autoethnography, Therapy and the Telling of Lives
Chapter 15 Erotic Mentoring: Pygmalion and Galatea at the University
Chapter 16 Breathing Life into Work
Chapter 17 Part 3: Publish and Perish
Chapter 18 Searching for Autoethnographic Credibility: Reflections from a Mom with a Notepad
Chapter 19 Part 4: Healing and Conecting
Chapter 20 Border Crossings: A Story of Sexual Identity Transformation
Chapter 21 Rebirthing "Border Crossings"
Chapter 22 Interlude: Autoethnography: Self-indulgence or Something More
Part 23 ETHNOGRAPHIC AESTHETICS: ARTFUL INQUIRY
Chapter 24 Prelude: Collage
Chapter 25 The Hard Road Home: Towards a Polyphonic Narrative of the Mother/Daughter Relationship
Chapter 26 Living the Hyphenated Edge: Autoethnography, Hybridity and Aesthetics
Chapter 27 The Visitor: Juggling Life in the Grip of the Text
Chapter 28 Interlude: If the Color Changes, 1996/97
Part 29 BETWEEN LITERATURE AND ETHNOGRAPHY
Chapter 30 The Griot's Many Burdens/Fiction's Many Truths
Chapter 31 Beirut Letters
Chapter 32 Babaji and Me: Reflections on a Fictional Ethnography
Chapter 33 Men Kissing
Chapter 34 Interlude: High Noon
Part 35 CLOSING
Chapter 36 Between the Ride and the Story:Illness and Remoralization
Chapter 37 Interlude: The Metaphor is the Message
Part 38 AFTER
Chapter 39 Narrative Heat
Chapter 40 When Does a Conference End?

Product details

Published Dec 18 2001
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 432
ISBN 9780759116801
Imprint AltaMira Press
Series Ethnographic Alternatives
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Carolyn Ellis

Anthology Editor

Arthur P. Bochner

Contributor

Kathryn Church

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Carolyn Ellis

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Douglas Flemons

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Arthur Frank

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Kenneth Gergen

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Mary Gergen

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H. L. Goodall

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Ross Gray

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Shelley Green

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Scott Hoy

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Elaine Jenks

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Lesa Lockford

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Ron Pelias

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Picart Kay

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Janice Rushing

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Paul Stoller

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