Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Genealogical Method	Life-History Interview
Πεδίο	Anthropology	Anthropology
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1910	2017
Δημιουργός	W. H. R. Rivers	Ethnographic interviewing tradition (codified by Bernard)
Τύπος	Systematic field procedure for collecting and reconstructing kinship genealogies	In-depth, often multi-session chronological interview eliciting one person's whole life
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Rivers, W. H. R. (1910). The genealogical method of anthropological inquiry. The Sociological Review, 3(1), 1–12.	Bernard, H. R. (2017). Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (6th ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN: 9780759112421
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Genealogical Method of Inquiry, Pedigree Method, Kinship Genealogy Collection, Rivers Method	Life Story Interview, Biographical Interview, Personal Narrative Interview, Life-Course Interview
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	The genealogical method is W. H. R. Rivers' systematic procedure for collecting kinship genealogies in the field using a small, fixed set of questions and the community's own kin terms. By asking each informant a standard sequence — who are your parents, your siblings, your spouse, your children, and so on — and recording named individuals together with the relationship terms applied to them, the ethnographer accumulates concrete pedigrees. These pedigrees are then assembled to reconstruct descent, marriage, residence, and the broader principles of social organization.	The life-history interview is an ethnographic interviewing technique in which the researcher elicits one person's whole life, told chronologically, usually across several extended sessions. The narrator recounts childhood, family, work, migration, turning points, and old age in their own words, and the resulting narrative is treated as both ethnographic and historical data. Analysis proceeds thematically — coding recurring topics and meanings — and narratively — attending to how the story is constructed, sequenced, and given significance by the teller.