Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Anthropology
Reader 1
Lara Deeb
Reader 2
Gabriela Morales
Abstract
Ethnography has long generated questions of power, authority, and representation. In this thesis, I explore how an emerging type of ethnography–autoethnography–disrupts conventional methods and ways of thinking about ethnography in the field of anthropology. I connect these disruptions to 20th century discussions about the colonial, Eurocentric roots of the discipline and also experimental, reflexive ethnographic writing. My investigation reveals how autoethnography can extend and facilitate writers’ self-reflection and creative self-expression in the context of the cultures they are studying, disrupting conventional realist ethnography and further revealing the overlap between literature and ethnography.
Recommended Citation
Morales-Jimenez, Camila, "Experimental Writing: How Reflexivity and Autoethnography Disrupt Genre and Colonial Conventions in Ethnography" (2022). Scripps Senior Theses. 1796.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1796
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
