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According to Maréchal ( 2010 ), the early criticism of autobiographical methods in anthropology was about “ their validity on grounds of being unrepresentative and lacking objectivity ” ( p. 45 ).

She also points out that evocative and emotional genres of autoethnography have been criticized by mostly analytic proponents for their “ lack of ethnographic relevance as a result of being too personal .” As she writes, they are criticized “ for being biased, navel-gazing, self-absorbed, or emotionally incontinent, and for hijacking traditional ethnographic purposes and scholarly contributions ” ( Maréchal, 2010, p. 45 ).