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Introduction: Autoethnography, Personal narrative and reflexive writing as a method of inquiry

Introduction: Autoethnography, Personal narrative and reflexive writing as a method of inquiry The special issue of Human Affairs on Autoethnography, personal narrative, and reflexive writing as a method of ethnographic inquiry aims to introduce some of the contemporary methodological perspectives on ethnographic essayistic and writing as a specific postmodern genre and method (Richardson & St. Pierre, 2005). The articles are based on examples of various approaches to ethnographic writing as alternatives to the realist (Van Maanen, 2011) or report-writing styles (Anderson, 2001) that still predominate in the humanities and social sciences. They explore evocative versus analytic (Anderson, 2006) autoethnographic approaches to research and writing; personal reflections and impressionist narratives (Van Maanen, 2011) of challenging fieldwork experience; and reflexive collaborative writing experience as postmodern genres and methods and are applied to critically approach, theorize, and delve into various inspirational topics.In “Revealing ethnographic mediations through reflexive writing: A collaborative exploration of tarot and astrology as a not-knowing approach”, Adam Wiesner and Mónica Cornejo-Valle examine the ethnographic process by experimenting with two communication devices they have used in their fieldwork: tarot readings and evolutionary astrology. For the purposes of developing a collaborative experience of reflexive writing, the authors openly reflect on their different backgrounds and together interpret their ethnographic experience as a process of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Affairs de Gruyter

Introduction: Autoethnography, Personal narrative and reflexive writing as a method of inquiry

Wiesner, Adam
Human Affairs , Volume 31 (3): 3 – Jul 1, 2021
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© 2021 Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences
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The special issue of Human Affairs on Autoethnography, personal narrative, and reflexive writing as a method of ethnographic inquiry aims to introduce some of the contemporary methodological perspectives on ethnographic essayistic and writing as a specific postmodern genre and method (Richardson & St. Pierre, 2005). The articles are based on examples of various approaches to ethnographic writing as alternatives to the realist (Van Maanen, 2011) or report-writing styles (Anderson, 2001) that still predominate in the humanities and social sciences. They explore evocative versus analytic (Anderson, 2006) autoethnographic approaches to research and writing; personal reflections and impressionist narratives (Van Maanen, 2011) of challenging fieldwork experience; and reflexive collaborative writing experience as postmodern genres and methods and are applied to critically approach, theorize, and delve into various inspirational topics.In “Revealing ethnographic mediations through reflexive writing: A collaborative exploration of tarot and astrology as a not-knowing approach”, Adam Wiesner and Mónica Cornejo-Valle examine the ethnographic process by experimenting with two communication devices they have used in their fieldwork: tarot readings and evolutionary astrology. For the purposes of developing a collaborative experience of reflexive writing, the authors openly reflect on their different backgrounds and together interpret their ethnographic experience as a process of

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