Key Terms

  • autobiography, 198
  • autoethnography, 196
  • canonical stories, 204
  • co-constructed narratives, 204
  • community autoethnographies, 203
  • crisis of confidence, 196
  • epiphanies, 198
  • ethnography, 199
  • generalizability, 207
  • identity politics, 196
  • indigenous/native ethnographies, 202
  • insiders, 199
  • interactive interviews, 203
  • master, universal narratives, 197
  • narrative ethnographies, 203
  • outsiders, 199
  • participant observers, 199
  • personal narratives, 202
  • reflexive ethnographies, 203
  • reflexive, dyadic interviews, 203
  • relational ethics, 204
  • reliability, 207
  • showing, 200
  • telling, 200
  • thick description, 201
  • validity, 207
  • witnessing, 205

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