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Wunderkammers, photographs, and growing up Southern: a visual semiotic analysis of self-identity through autoethnography

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dc.contributor.authorOwnby, Terry D., author
dc.contributor.authorQuick, Don, advisor
dc.contributor.authorGeiger, Wendy, committee member
dc.contributor.authorBanning, James H., committee member
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Sharon K., committee member
dc.contributor.authorDickinson, Greg, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:43:15Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:43:15Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractBy using the civil rights era within a segregated South as a cultural backdrop for this dissertation, I explored the construction of self-identity through narrative text and photographs in the form of a visual autoethnography. Specifically, this study had a two-fold mission: First to explore my self-identity in relation to my Southern culture through narrative text and photographs as primary data; and second, to apply a combined-methods approach in order to paint a complete and holistic portrait of my self-identity construction. Using an overarching notion of Barthesian visual semiotics, I have taken a combined-methods approach by using traditional ethnographic research techniques to produce an autoethnographic narrative with a critical visual methodology in order to draw meaning from a university gallery showing of my photographic exhibition titled: Wunderkammer: Specimen views of my postmodern life . The resultant analyses of narrative text and photographs revealed an underlying sub-text of significant racial encounters as well as several social and institutional ideological issues that contributed to my self-identity construction and acculturational journey. Implications from this particular methodological design indicate usefulness not only in photography programs, but also in allied disciplines such as communication, cultural and media studies, education, sociology, or anthropology. This study contributes its voice to the conversations about autoethnography and self-identity construction through researcher-participant generated photographs.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierOwnby_colostate_0053A_10379.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/49854
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.subjectethnography
dc.subjectvisual semiotics
dc.subjectvisual autoethnography
dc.subjectnarrative
dc.subjectresearch methods
dc.subjectcommunication
dc.titleWunderkammers, photographs, and growing up Southern: a visual semiotic analysis of self-identity through autoethnography
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thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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