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Journal
Auto/Biography
ISSN
0967-5507
Volume
12
Issue
2

Article Facts

Title
The Ethnographic Autobiography
DOI
10.1191/0967550704ab004oa
Author
Harry F. Wolcott (University of Oregon, USA, hwolcott at oregon.uoregon.edu)
Pages
93-106

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The Ethnographic Autobiography

Harry F. Wolcott (University of Oregon, USA, hwolcott at oregon.uoregon.edu)

DOI: 10.1191/0967550704ab004oa

Abstract

The author draws upon an earlier article by anthropologist Stanley Brandes to recommend that when the intent and purposes of relating a life story are clearly anthropological, the work be labelled `ethnographic autobiography'. An ethnographic autobiography is defined as a life story told to an anthropologist or used in ways that implicate a sociocultural rather than a psychological interpretation.

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