ABSTRACT
Today, the enterprise of doing and writing ethnography consists of the narrative shaping and analysis of human experience and vulnerability. As the essays in this section reveal, autoethnography, or the use of personal knowledge and membership to explore cultural practice (Goodall, 2000; Ellis, 2004), combines participation with memory using artfully embodied qualitative methods. Here the gaze turns inward toward the self while maintaining the outward gaze and responsibility of ethnography.
