autoethnographic

English

Etymology

auto- + ethnographic

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Adjective

autoethnographic (comparative more autoethnographic, superlative most autoethnographic)

  1. Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
    Synonym: autoethnographical
    • 1995, Rebecca Jane Dobkins, From Vanishing to Visible: Maidu Indian Arts and the Uses of Tradition:
      If ethnographic texts are a means by which Europeans represent to themselves their (usually subjugated) others, autoethnographic texts are those the others construct in response to or in dialogue with those metropolitan representations.
    • 2007, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans:
      At the same time it often resorts to free indirect speech rather than dialogue, frequently using an autoethnographic point of view, suggesting a more personalized mode of shared ethnographic documentation.

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