Autoanthropology

For this reason, some anthropologists prefer to do one or another form of autoanthropology, in which you use yourself as your informant—perhaps abetted by a few close colleagues as interlocutors.

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Actually, the way in which my ‘autoanthropology’ complements other approaches to material culture of the recent past, including the archaeology of the contemporary, might reflect the kind of regularity—theoretical point, if I dare say—I want to stress.

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According to Ellis and Bochner (2000), 'autoethnography includes those studies that have been referred to by other similarly situated terms, such as "personal narratives," "lived experience," "critical autobiography," "autobiographical ethnography," "personal sociology," and "autoanthropology"'...

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