Autoethnography

Research
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Anderson, L. (2006). Analytic Autoethnography. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35(4), 373-395.

  • Berger, (2001). Inside Out: Narrative autoethnography as a path toward rapport. Qualitative Inquiry, 7(4), 504-518.

  • Chang, Heewon (2008). Autoethnography as method. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

  • Clough, P.T. (1997). Autotelecommunication and autoethnography: A reading of Carolyn Ellis’s Final Negotiations. Sociological Quarterly.

  • Duncan, M. (2004). Autoethnography: Critical appreciation of an emerging art. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Retrieved 1 July, 2009 from http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/4_1/html/muncey.htm.

  • Ellis, C. (1999). Heartful Autoethnography. Qualitative Health Research, 9(5), 669-683.

  • Ellis, C. (1997) Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Emotionally About Our Lives. In Tierney, W.G. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds). Representation and Text: Reframing the narrative voice. New York: SUNY Press

  • Ellis, C. (1997) Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Emotionally About Our Lives. In Tierney, W.G. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds). Representation and Text: Reframing the narrative voice. New York: SUNY Press.

  • Ellis C., & Bochner, A.P.(2006). Analyzing analytic autoethnography: An autopsy. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35, 429-449.

  • Grant, A. & Zeeman, L. (2012). Whose Story Is It? An autoethnography concerning narrative identity. The Qualitative Report, 17, 1-12.

    • This article offers a beautiful presentation of auto-ethnography that resists (even as it reveals) oppressive master narratives. It clearly elucidates other key constructs: backstage stories, narrative neglect, narrative entrapment, privileged meaning, and subjugated meaning.

  • Humphreys, M. (2005). Getting personal: Reflexivity and autoethnographic vignettes. Qualitative Inquiry, 11(6), 840-860.

  • Meneley, A. & Young, D.J. (2005)(Eds). Auto-ethnographies: The anthropology of academic practices. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press.

  • Muncey, T. (2005). Doing autoethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 4(3), Article 5. Retrieved 1 July 2009 from http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/4_1/html/muncey.htm

  • Pelias, R.J. (2003). The academic tourist: An autoethnography. Qualitative Inquiry, 9(3), 369-373.

  • Pratt, M.W., Arnold, M.L., & Mackey, K. (2001). Adolescents’ representations of the parent voice in stories of personal turning points. In McAdams, D.P.,Josselson, R., & Lieblich, A., (Eds). Turns in the Road: Narrative studies of lives in transition. American Psychological Association.

  • Reed-Danahay, D.E (1997) (Ed). Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the self and the social. Oxford: Berg,

  • Roth, W.-M. (2008) (Ed). Auto/Biography and Auto/Ethnography: Praxis of Research Method.

  • Sparkes, A.C. (2001) Autoethnography: Self-indulgence or something more? In Bochner, A & Ellis, C. (Eds) Ethnographically Speaking: Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics. Alta Mira Press.

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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