Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761991638
• ISBN13: 9780761991632
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"