Abstract
In this article, I discuss auto-ethno-graphy, here deliberately hyphenated to stress the crucial, constituent elements of the admittedly blurred genre of autoethnographic inquiry. I do so mainly to rescue the genre from the accusation that it is not only blurred but also inevitably uncritical.
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