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Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories book cover

1st Edition

Evocative Autoethnography Writing Lives and Telling Stories

By Arthur Bochner, Carolyn Ellis Copyright 2016
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge
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This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous examples from their work and others, world-renowned scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect intellectually and emotionally to the lives of readers throughout the challenging process of... Read more

Preface
Introduction

Part One: Origins and History
1. Coming to Autoethnography
2. The Rise of Autoethnography

Part Two: Writing and Telling Evocative Stories
3. Storytelling and Story Writing
4. Thinking with ‘Maternal Connections’

Part Three: Ethical Dilemmas and Ethnographic Choices
5. Doing Evocative Autoethnography Ethically
6. The ‘Ethno’ in Evocative Autoethnography

Part Four: Blending Evocative Genres
7. Thinking with ‘Bird On The Wire’
8. Memory and Truth

Coda

References
Index
About the Authors

Biography

Arthur P. Bochner

I have been engaged, as a teacher and researcher, with autoethnography for over a decade.
Reading this book has me wish that I had encountered it back at the start; perhaps I could have
bypassed much of the confusion I experienced about issues such as paradigm wars, research
genres, the place of the “I” in research inquiry and such like.
David Mc Cormack, Maynooth University, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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