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Autoethnography as research methodology?
Abstract
Composition studies has adapted ethnographic practices to form a new research methodology in "autoethnography." This article highlights some of the problematic issues in the autoethnography, interrogates the shift away from autobiography, and proposes a new relationship for the reader and researcher.
Introduction
In The Interpretation of Cultures, Clifford Geertz argues, "a good interpretation of anything... takes us into the heart of that which it is the interpretation" (18). This suggests a profound faith in the researcher, in the process of inquiry systematized by ethnographic methodology, and in knowledge itself: that a researcher ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Autoethnography as research methodology?