Charismatic authority (n.) is an individual's ability to exercise domination on the basis of personal and superhuman or supernatural qualities.
Ethnographic authority (n.) is the claim to speak truthfully about another culture that ethnographic writing makes, and the methods behind it.
Ethnographic authority (n.) is a term referring to the ways in which authority over cultural representation has been shaped in ethnographic practices over the last century and how in the 19600s that authority came to be challenged or dispersed.
First-person authority (n.) is part of the language-game: I am the one asked about my motives or my pain, though I can err and others predict me.
Illegitimate authority (n.) must sometimes be used: working within structures you oppose can bring you to where you can challenge them.