Composing Ethnography Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing

Name: Composing Ethnography Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing
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ISBN: 9780761991649

ISBN-10: 0761991646

ISBN-13: 9780761991649

Edition: 1996

Authors: Carolyn Ellis, Arthur P. Bochner

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The contributors to this book enlarge the area of ethnographic writing by using their own experiences. The innovative pieces use memoirs, poetry, photography, etc., to tackle areas which ethnographic writing usually finds difficult to handle.

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 8/27/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.08" wide x 9.06" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



About the Editors


Preface


Introduction: Talking Over Ethnography




Autobiology




A Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness


Reflections on Body, Food, and Bulimia




My Mother Is Mentally Retarded




Thrown Overboard


The Human Costs of Health Care Rationing



The Life Boat Is Fraught: Reflections on "Thrown Overboard"




Collecting Ourselves at the End of the Century




Reconstructing Apsaras from Memory Six Thoughts




Kaleidoscope


The Same and Different




Speech Lessons




Maternal Connections




An Ethnographic Act


The Construction of Consensual Theatre




Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan


Tsuris in Latin America, the Bronx, and the USSR




"She Changes Everything She Touches"


Ethnographic Journeys of Self-Discovery




Silent Voices


A Subversive Reading of Child Sexual Abuse




Once My Father Traveled West to California



Open-Ending: Readers Talk Back


Name Index


Subject Index