autoethnographic

comparative more autoethnographic · superlative most autoethnographic

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

   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.

   2007, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans

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   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.

   1995, Rebecca Jane Dobkins, From Vanishing to Visible: Maidu Indian Arts and the Uses of Tradition

   Synonyms: autoethnographical