Composing Ethnography

Carolyn Ellis: University of South Florida Arthur P. Bochner: University of South Florida

• chapter 1 About the Authors chapter 2 Preface and Acknowledgments chapter 3 Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, Introduction: Talking Over Ethnography chapter 4 Part 1: Autoethnography chapter 5 1. David Payne, Autobiology chapter 6 2. Lisa Tillmann-Healy, A Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness: Reflections on Body, Food and Bulimia chapter 7 3. Carol Rambo Ronai, My Mother is Mentally Retarded chapter 8 4. Aliza Kolker, Thrown Overboard: The Human Costs of Health Care Rationing chapter 9 (R. Ruth Linden, The Life Boat is Fraught: Reflection on Thrown Overboard) chapter 10 5. Mark Neumann, Collecting Ourselves at the End of the Century chapter 11 Part 2: Sociopoetics chapter 12 6. Judith Hamera, Reconstructing Apsaras from Memory: Six Thoughts chapter 13 7. Deborah Austin, Kaleidoscope: The Same and Different chapter 14 8. Laurel Richardson, Speech Lessons chapter 15 9. Carolyn Ellis, Maternal Connections chapter 16 10. Jim Mienczakowski, An Ethnographics Act: The Construction of Consensual Theatre chapter 17 Part 3: Reflexive Ethnography chapter 18 11. Marc Edelman, Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan: Tsuris in Latin America, the Bronx, and the USSR chapter 19 12. Tanice G. Foltz and Wendy Griffin, She Changes Everything She Touches: Ethnographic Journeys of Self-Discovery chapter 20 13. Karen Fox, Silent Voices: A Subversive Reading of Child Sexual Abuse chapter 21 14. Richard Quinney, Once My Father Traveled West to California chapter 22 Open-Ending, Readers Talk Back chapter 23 Name Index chapter 24 Subject Index

Ellis and Bochner establish the need, importance and centrality of new forms of qualitative writing for interpretive ethnography . . . [establishing] autoethnographies, sociopoetics, and reflexive texts as central points of reference for innovative ethnographic practice in the next century. There is much to be learned from these important exemplars.