autoanthropology

Noun

autoanthropology (usually uncountable, plural autoanthropologies)

1. (usually) An approach to anthropology in which the author's own anecdotal or personal experience is foregrounded.
   • For this reason, some anthropologists prefer to do one or another form of autoanthropology, in which you use yourself as your informant—perhaps abetted by a few close colleagues as interlocutors.2007, Daniel Dennett, “Philosophy as Naive Anthropology: Comment on Bennett and Hacker”, in Maxwell Bennett et al., editors, Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language, Columbia...
   • Actually, the way in which my ‘autoanthropology’ complements other approaches to material culture of the recent past, including the archaeology of the contemporary, might reflect the kind of regularity—theoretical point, if I dare say—I want to stress.2013, Pierre Lemonnier, “Autoanthropology, Modernity, and Automobiles”, in Paul Graves-Brown et al., editors, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World, Oxford University...