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Autobiography vs Autoethnography - What's the difference?

autobiography | autoethnography |

As a noun autobiography

is a self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

As an adjective autoethnography is

referring to a writing (book or article) about ones own ethnic background.

autobiography

English

(wikipedia autobiography)

Noun

  • A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
  • * (Samuel Clemens)
    • Autobiography
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XI , passage=Here I was interrupted, as I'm so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeoman's Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography .}}

    Synonyms

    * memoir

    Antonyms

    * heterobiography

    Derived terms

    * autobiographical, autobiographically

    Related terms

    * biography

    autoethnography

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Referring to a writing (book or article) about ones own ethnic background.
    • The aborigine's autobiography was also an autoethnography . It told much of the culture he grew up in.

    Derived terms

    * autoethnographic