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In This Definitive Reference Volume, Almost Fifty Leading Thinkers And Practitioners Of Autoethnographic Researc - From Four Continents And A Dozen Discipline - Comprehensively Cover Its Vision, Opportunities And Challenges. Chapters Address The Theory, History, And Ethics Of Autoethnographic Practice, Representational And Writing Issues, The Personal And Relational Concerns Of The Autoethnographer, And The Link Between Researcher And Social Justice. A Set Of 13 Exemplars Show The Use Of These Principles In Action. Autoethnography Is One Of The Most Popularly Practiced Forms Of Qualitative Research Over The Past 20 Years, And This Volume Captures All Its Essential Elements For Graduate Students And Practicing Researchers. -- Publisher. Preface: Carrying The Torch For Autoethnography / Carolyn Ellis -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Coming To Know Autoethnography As More Than A Method / Stacy Holman Jones, Tony Adams, Carolyn Ellis -- Section 1. Reflecting And Engaging -- Introduction: Putting Meanings Into Motion Autoethnography's Existential Calling / Arthur P. Bochner -- 1. I Learn By Going: Autoethnographic Modes Of Inquiry / Leon Anderson, Bonnie Glass-coffin -- 2. A History Of Autoethographic Inquiry / Kitrina Douglas, David Carless -- 3. Individual And Collaborative Autoethnography As Method A Social Scientist's Perspective / Heewon Chang -- 4. Interpretive Autoethnography / Norman K. Denzin -- 5. Negotiating Our Postcolonial Selves From The Ground To The Ivory Tower / Mohan J. Dutta, Ambar Basu -- Exemplars -- 6. Walk, Walking, Talking, Home / Devika Chawla -- 7. Sit With Your Legs Closed! And Other: Sayin's From My Childhood / Robin M. Boylorn -- 8. Who's There? A Week Subject / Sophie Tamas -- Section 2. Making And Relating -- Introduction: Cool Kids On The Quad / H. L. (bud) Goodall, Jr. -- 9. Spinning Autoethnographic Reflexivity, Cultural Critique, And Negotiating Selves / Keith Berry -- 10. Sketching Subjectivities / Susanne Gannon -- 11. Self And Oth