Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social

by Deborah Reed-Danahay

Book Overview

In departing from the traditional stance taken by anthropologists, who study 'others' ethnographically, this timely book explores forms of self-inscription on the part of both the ethnographer and those 'others' who are studied. Informed by developments in postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism, this is an original contribution to the growing dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. The chapters build upon recent reconsiderations of the uses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185973975X
• ISBN13: 9781859739754
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"