Sunday, May 11, 2008

Community Interlude: Taking Autoethnographic Research to a Domestic Abuse Shelter

pg 272-282: here Dr. Ellis has co-constructed an event and written it in the third person omniscient. Interesting. It seems to work. She collected the thoughts of all the participants through interviews and then had them read over her drafts for accuracy. Yet, the way she tells it seems to be out of order - before or after things are needed, or they are repeated.

I am glad to learn the lesson from this piece that problems can arise that I don't forsee, as far as reactions to works. For example, my fellow evacuees and any Timorese who read it, or any aid workers.

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