autoethnographic
English
Etymology
auto- + ethnographic
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔːtəʊˌɛθnəʊˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɔtoʊˌɛθnəˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
Adjective
autoethnographic (comparative more autoethnographic, superlative most autoethnographic)
- 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.
Related terms
- autoethnography
- -ic
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