Autoethnographic

//ɔːtəʊˌɛθnəʊˈɡɹæf.ɪk// adj

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

    "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."

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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."

Etymology

From auto- + ethnographic.

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