ABSTRACT
Doing autoethnography, in simple terms, means to make a cultural, or ethnographic, study of oneself. Such a study can be carried out in a wide range of fields and on a broad range of topics (see Ellis & Bochner (2000) for a comprehensive list and summary of various autoethnographic studies), and has multiple possibilities in terms of writing styles and structures, e.g., short stories, poetry, fiction, novels, photographic essays, personal essays, journals, fragmented and layered writing, and social science prose, to tell one's lived story. In reading and studying others’ autoethnographic studies, I came to appreciate rich documentations of the moment-to-moment concrete details of a life, the complexities of coping and living with difficulties, how people struggle to make sense of their experiences, and most of all, how people come to understand themselves in deep ways through their journey.
