Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing (Ethnographic Alternatives Book Series, V. 1)

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 the arts. The authors demonstrate how ethnographic data can be converted into memorable experiences that readers can use in the classroom and everyday life. The Contributors To This Book Enlarge The Area Of Ethnographic Writing By Using Their Own Experiences. The Innovative Pieces Use Memoirs, Poetry, Photography, Etc., To Tackle Areas Which Ethnographic Writing Usually Finds Difficult To Handle. Talking Over Ethnography / Arthur P. Bochner And Carolyn Ellis-- Autobiology / David Payne -- A Secret Life In A Culture Of Thinness : Reflections On Body, Food, And Bulimia / Lisa M. Tillmann-healy -- My Mother Is Mentally Retarded / Carol Rambo Ronai -- Thrown Overboard : The Human Costs Of Health Care Rationing / Aliza Kolker -- The Life Boat Is Fraught : Reflections On Thrown Overboard / R. Ruth Linden -- Collecting Ourselves At The End Of The Century / Mark Neumann -- Reconstructing Apsaras From Memory : Six Thoughts / Judith Hamera -- Kaleidoscope : The Same And Different / Deborah A. Austin. Speech Lessons / Laurel Richardson -- Maternal Connections / Carolyn Ellis -- An Ethnographic Act : The Construction Of Consensual Theatre / Jim Mienczakowski -- Devil, Not-quite-white, Rootless Cosmopolitan : Tsuris In Latin America, The Bronx, And The Ussr / Marc Edelman -- She Changes Everything She Touches : Ethnographic Journeys Of Self-discovery / Tanice G. Foltz And Wendy Griffin -- Silent Voices : A Subversive Reading Of Child Sexual Abuse / Karen V. Fox -- Once My Father Traveled West To California / Richard Quinney. Carolyn Ellis, Arthur P. Bochner, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. 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? This title tackles questions such as these. It demonstrates how ethnographic data can be converted into memorable experiences that readers can use in the classroom.