autoethnographic

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ ethnographic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːtəʊˌɛθnəʊˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔtoʊˌɛθnəˈɡɹæf.ɪk/

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.

Derived terms

• autoethnographically

Related terms

• autoethnography
• -ic

See also

• autoethnographic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia