Studies in symbolic interaction. /

Sketching Carolyn Ellis, the purple diva of autoethnography / Carol Rambo -- Storying the possible : the life writing and writing life of Carolyn Ellis / Stacy Holman Jones -- From Lingua Franca to Scriptio Animi : Carolyn Ellis's writing of the heart / Shelley Green, Douglas Flemons -- Tracing touch / Patricia Geist Martin, Jeanine Minge -- Touching back/receiving gifts / Carolyn Ellis -- Taking notes : lessons on ethnography and life from Carolyn Ellis / Laura L. Ellingson -- Democracy is a gift / Norman K. Denzin -- Surviving autoethnography / Arthur P. Bochner -- Symbolic interaction, sociology and changing society : critical issues and new directions : introduction / Peter M. Hall -- Identitiy stakes, manhood acts, and the dynamics of accountability / Michael Schwalbe -- Backwards traveler(s) : re/writing post-9/11 America / Michael D. Giardina -- Sacred and profane : Six Feet Under : a sociological performance / Andrea Fontana, Troy A. McGinnis, Cheryl L. Radeloff -- Lessons from Jasper : how a white father's unimaginable imaginary conversations with his black daughter shine a light on whiteness / Kevin Dolan -- Carnaval, Cumbia and queens : representations of blackness / Deisy Davila -- Words / Claudio Moreira -- Novel : disclosing the self in a creative social act / Lonnie Athens -- Fanny May, the gray horse, and remembrance of Ma's death / Michael A. Katovich -- Strangeness of being / Andrea Fontana, Troy A. McGinnis -- Caffeine, carnival and the emergence of eighteenth-century nervous dis-ease / Casey Diana -- Postmodern turn in interactionism / Andrea Fontana -- Who are you : Pete Townshend, "going solo," and the postmodern search for self in rock music / Daniel Dotter -- Medicated self / Jennifer Davis-Berman, Frances G. Pestello -- Emotions and collaborative learning : a Durkheimian interpretation of Scheff's theory of creativity / Steve Derné, Lisa Jadwin -- Note on inter-viewing : using symbolic interactionism for interview analysis / Aviad Raz -- Other in the game : Mead and Wittgenstein on interaction / R.S. Perinbanayagam -- What's happening to S.I. : G. Fine / Anwar Ouassini -- Decline of folkways and mores / Bernard N. Meltzer -- Gay moral discourse : talking about idenitity, sex, and commitment / David E. Woolwine, E. Doyle McCarthy -- Account of a life lived : Herbert Blumer revisited / Karen Manges Douglas.