Composing Ethnography

Carolyn Ellis: University of South Florida Arthur P. Bochner: University of South Florida

Ellis and Bochner establish the need, importance and centrality of new forms of qualitative writing for interpretive ethnography . . . [establishing] autoethnographies, sociopoetics, and reflexive texts as central points of reference for innovative ethnographic practice in the next century. There is much to be learned from these important exemplars.

• chapter 1 About the Authorschapter 2 Preface and Acknowledgmentschapter 3 Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, Introduction: Talking Over Ethnographychapter 4 Part 1: Autoethnographychapter 5 1. David Payne, Autobiologychapter 6 2. Lisa Tillmann-Healy, A Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness: Reflections on Body, Food and Bulimiachapter 7 3. Carol Rambo Ronai, My Mother is Mentally Retardedchapter 8 4. Aliza Kolker, Thrown Overboard: The Human Costs of Health Care Rationingchapter 9 (R. Ruth Linden, The Life Boat is Fraught: Reflection on Thrown Overboard)chapter 10 5. Mark Neumann, Collecting Ourselves at the End of the Centurychapter 11 Part 2: Sociopoeticschapter 12 6. Judith Hamera, Reconstructing Apsaras from Memory: Six Thoughtschapter 13 7. Deborah Austin, Kaleidoscope: The Same and Differentchapter 14 8. Laurel Richardson, Speech Lessonschapter 15 9. Carolyn Ellis, Maternal Connectionschapter 16 10. Jim Mienczakowski, An Ethnographics Act: The Construction of Consensual Theatrechapter 17 Part 3: Reflexive Ethnographychapter 18 11. Marc Edelman, Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan: Tsuris in Latin America, the Bronx, and the USSRchapter 19 12. Tanice G. Foltz and Wendy Griffin, She Changes Everything She Touches: Ethnographic Journeys of Self-Discoverychapter 20 13. Karen Fox, Silent Voices: A Subversive Reading of Child Sexual Abusechapter 21 14. Richard Quinney, Once My Father Traveled West to Californiachapter 22 Open-Ending, Readers Talk Backchapter 23 Name Indexchapter 24 Subject Index