The Academic Tourist: An Autoethnography
Qualitative InquiryPublished 1 June 2003
Ronald J. Pelias
Citations147
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The essay argues that academics, similar to tourists, often only manage to get to the surface of any area of inquiry they pursue, in part because of the nature of what constitutes full understanding and in part because of the habits of academic life. Written in an autoethnographic style, the essay offers a sociology of the academy through descriptive details. It invites emotional identification.
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Social SciencesBusiness, Management and Accounting
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