Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Key Ideas

• Autoethnographers work to provide dense descriptions of a person's experience with a culture in order to better understand this culture and an individual's experience in it.
• Autoethnography developed in response to oppressive, colonialist, and inhumane research practices, and from recognition that human differences matter.
• Autoethnography is both process and product, a way of doing and representing research.
• Autoethnographers combine aspects of autobiography and ethnography: similar to autobiographers, they value personal experience and evocative writing; similar to ethnographers, they work to provide dense descriptions of cultural experience.
• Autoethnography can take a myriad of forms, all of which depend on an autoethnographer's ...