Methoden vergleichen

	Multi-Sited Ethnography	Ethnographische Forschung
Fachgebiet	Anthropology	Qualitative Forschung
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1995	1920s–1970s
Urheber	George E. Marcus	Anthropology (Malinowski, Boas); applied in health and sociology (Geertz)
Typ	Fieldwork design tracing connections across multiple field sites	Method
Wegweisende Quelle	Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: the emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 95–117.	Geertz, C. (1973). The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays. Basic Books.
Aliasnamen	Multisited Ethnography, Multi-Locale Ethnography, Mobile Ethnography, Follow-the-Thing Ethnography	Ethnography, Participatory Observation, Field Research
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	Multi-sited ethnography is a fieldwork design, articulated by George Marcus in 1995, in which the ethnographer studies a single cultural phenomenon by moving across the multiple, geographically dispersed sites through which it circulates rather than dwelling in one bounded village or community. Instead of asking 'what is the culture of this place?', the researcher asks 'how is this object, person, or idea connected across places?' and follows it wherever it goes. The result is an account of globalized, networked, or transnational phenomena that no single locality could reveal on its own.	Ethnographic research is an immersive qualitative methodology in which researchers spend prolonged time in a community, organization, or social setting, combining participant observation, interviews, and document analysis to develop a rich, contextual understanding of a group's beliefs, practices, and social structures. Grounded in anthropology and refined for health, organizational, and social research, ethnography produces 'thick description' (Geertz 1973) that reveals the meaning and context underlying observable behavior.