Description |
400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Ethnographic alternatives book series ; v. 1 |
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Ethnographic alternatives book series ; v. 1
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Contents |
Introduction: Talking Over Ethnography / Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis -- 1. Autobiology / David Payne -- 2. A Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness. Reflections on Body, Food, and Bulimia / Lisa M. Tillman-Healy -- 3. My Mother Is Mentally Retarded / Carol Rambo Ronai -- 4. Thrown Overboard. The Human Costs of Health Care Rationing / Aliza Kolker. The Life Boat Is Fraught: Reflections on "Thrown Overboard" / R. Ruth Linden -- 5. Collecting Ourselves at the End of the Century / Mark Neumann -- 6. Reconstructing Apsaras from Memory Six Thoughts / Judith Hamera -- 7. Kaleidoscope. The Same and Different / Deborah A. Austin -- 8. Speech Lessons / Laurel Richardson -- 9. Maternal Connections / Carolyn Ellis -- 10. An Ethnographic Act. The Construction of Consensual Theatre / Jim Mienczakowski -- 11. Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan. Tsuris in Latin America, the Bronx, and the USSR / Marc Edelman -- 12. "She Changes Everything She Touches" |
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Ethnographic Journeys of Self-Discovery / Tanice G. Foltz and Wendy Griffin -- 13. Silent Voices. A Subversive Reading of Child Sexual Abuse / Karen V. Fox -- 14. Once My Father Traveled West to California / Richard Quinney -- Open-Ending: Readers Talk Back |
Summary |
The contributors to this book enlarge the area of ethnographic writing by using their own experiences. The innovative pieces use memoirs, poetry, photography, etc., to tackle areas which ethnographic writing usually finds difficult to handle |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Subject |
Ethnology -- Authorship.
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Social sciences -- Authorship.
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Author |
Bochner, Arthur P.
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Ellis, Carolyn, 1950-
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LC no. |
96023079 |
ISBN |
0761991638 |
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0761991646 (paperback) |
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