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Heartful Autoethnography

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ID4633732
AuthorsCarolyn Ellis (0000-0002-4129-6296, Institute for Interpretive Human Studies at the University of South Florida.)
Year1999
Volume9
Issue5
Pages669-683
Publication date1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/104973299129122153
OpenAlexW1584901094
LanguageEN
Citations received180
References cited21

The author seeks to develop an ethnography that includes researchers' vulnerable selves, emotions, bodies, and spirits; produces evocative stories that create the effect of reality; celebrates concrete experience and intimate detail; examines how human experience is endowed with meaning; is concerned with moral, ethical, and political consequences; encourages compassion and empathy; helps us know how to live and cope; features multiple voices and repositions readers and "subjects" as coparticipants in dialogue; seeks a fusion between social science and literature in which, as Gregory Bateson says, "you are partly blown by the winds of reality and partly an artist creating a composite out of the inner and outer events"; and connects the practices of social science with the living of life. In short, her goal is to extend ethnography to include the heart, the autobiographical, and the artistic text. This article provides a conversation with a student researching breast cancer that introduces issues in heartful autoethnography

Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Compassion · Conversation · Empathy · Ethnography · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Anthropology · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Empathy and Medical Education · Gender Studies · Obesity and Health Practices · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works180
Citations per year7,2
Citation span2001 - 2026 (26)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedYes
Citation typesNeutral: 170

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