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Noun

1. 1
   An ethnographic study drawing on one's own anecdotal or personal experience, or an approach to conducting research in which anecdotal or personal experience is foregrounded. countable, uncountable

   "The aborigine's autobiography was also an autoethnography. It told much about the culture he grew up in."

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"The aborigine's autobiography was also an autoethnography. It told much about the culture he grew up in."

Etymology

From auto- + ethnography.

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