cyberanthropology

I just read to articles of the book "Composing Ethnography: Aulternative Forms of Qualitative Writing" and I must say I am deeply disturbed. One, by Lise Tillmann-Healy was of her experience of bulimia, he other, by Carol Rambo Ronai was about her growing up with a mentally retareded mother. Boths writing was (would you have expected that?) very different from what one usually gets in ethnographic accounts. They frequently that they described scenes of their life, then switched to a more analytical style giving background information eg. how many young girls are bulimic. The introduction (written as a conversation betwenn the two editors) puts the essays into context, and I guess I should start reading that part a bit more careful. Still, I don't know what to think about it. Is this "scientific"? Is this "allowed"? What if I'd write in such a style?
Apart from "Autoethnography" there is also a chapter on "Sociopoetics" and one on "Reflexive Ethnography". Funny is also an "open-Ending" where a letter from the editors asks for comments on the book.

Here's a bookreview about the very book at the Forum for qualitative research.

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