![]() ![]() ![]() Positivists frown upon it: there’s no systematic analysis no theory what distinguishes it from mere storytelling? More extreme post-modernists frown upon it too from the opposite perspective, arguing that it’s positivism in autobiographical disguise, wherein the author subtly steers the reader toward certain authoritative conclusions, masquerading as self-exploration. Auto-ethnography has been described as “both process and product” “an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience.”Ī rogue child of the post-modern turn, autoethnography is perhaps more easily described as the place in ethnographic research where art meets science (and emerges triumphant) where the literary supplants the scientific and the creative overwhelms the analytic, the better to explain it (whatever it should happen to be) to the reader. ![]()
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