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.

Volume 28 of "Studies in Symbolic Interaction" emphasizes new developments in interactional theory and practice, as well as examples of post-modern ethnography and performance texts focused on border crossings and border performances. The volume also presents essays honoring Carolyn Ellis' contributions to 'Symbolic Interaction and Communications', as well as the annual address in the "Peter M Hall Lecture" series.

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