autoethnographic

Definition

Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.

Etymology

From auto- + ethnographic.

Example Sentences

• "If ethnographic texts are a means by which Europeans represent to themselves their (usually subjugated) others, autoethnographic texts are those the others construct in response to or in dialogue with those metropolitan representations."
• "At the same time it often resorts to free indirect speech rather than dialogue, frequently using an autoethnographic point of view, suggesting a more personalized mode of shared ethnographic documentation."

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