Open AccessAutoetnografia 2.0
Author(s) -
Krystian Darmach
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
kultura i społeczeństwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-195X
pISSN - 0023-5172
DOI - 10.35757/kis.2017.61.3.6
Subject(s) - autoethnography , reinterpretation , inscribed figure , representation (politics) , reading (process) , sociology , reflection (computer programming) , epistemology , aesthetics , art , philosophy , linguistics , anthropology , computer science , politics , geometry , programming language , mathematics , political science , law
This text is a methodological diary—a meta-autoethnography, an attempt to report on the course and formation of auto-reflection on various aspects of autoethnography in the broad sense. It is the reinterpretation of selected fragments of the author’s own texts of an autoethnographic profile, and a description of the process by which the concept of the essay emerged. It addresses the role of autoethnography in the anthropological cognitive process and autoethnography’s contemporary methodological status. The author intends to show how his reflections were shaped and to open the door to the scholar’s “kitchen” by describing how the questions, phrases, and ideas inscribed in his notebook served as departure points for further reflection and representation in the essay. He tells how his thoughts were structured, what reading and ideas inspired him, and finally, how these often laconic, fragmentary, and disorganized notes and observations brought together the issues and themes worthy of anthropological expansion and consideration.