Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing (Ethnographic Alternatives Book Series, V. 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761991646 ISBN 13: 9780761991649

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 1996

Synopsis

What is it like to have lived with bulimia for most of your life? To have a mother who is retarded? To fight a health insurance company in order to survive breast cancer? Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner have assembled innovative pieces which tackle these and other difficult questions, enlarging the space to practice ethnographic writing as the stories are told through memoirs, poetry, photography, and other creative forms usually associated with the arts. The authors demonstrate how ethnographic data can be converted into memorable experiences that readers can use in the classroom and everyday life.

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About the Author

Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She has been named a Distinguished Professor by the National Communication Association―the organization’s highest award of lifetime scholarly achievement in the study of human communication; she is also recipient of the Legacy Lifetime Award given by NCA’s Ethnography Division, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has been honored with various outstanding faculty mentoring and teaching awards across her career. Her publications have won awards from the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the National Communication Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761991646
• ISBN 13: 9780761991649
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 402
• Editor: Bochner Arthur P.