African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography

Doing autoethnography

The author has argued elsewhere that individual identity is sufficiently worthy of research and more than just a deviant case. The representation of an individual’s story that contains one of society’s taboos appears to require legitimation of not only the text but also the method by which it is conveyed. This is particularly important if memory and its distortions appear to be critical feature...

Autoethnography helps analyse emotions

Emotions are a near-universal component of human experience, with powerful influences on human attitudes and behaviors, and large-scale social, economic, and environmental consequences (Zajonc, 1984; Oatley et al., 2006; Turner and Stets, 2006; Nesse and Ellsworth, 2009; Niedenthal and Brauer, 2012; Dehaene, 2014). They have been described as a continuum that includes over 100 named emotions, w...

Cytochemical studies with African Horse-Sickness Virus by Fluorescent Microscopy

The Journey of a Community-Engaged Scholar: An Autoethnography

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Quantitative Studies on the Neutralization Reaction between African Horse-sickness Virus and Antiserum