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حوزه	کیفی	کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1957 (Collier's foundational experiment); oral history integration developed 1980s–2000s	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
پدیدآور	John Collier Jr. (photo elicitation basis); extended into oral history by visual anthropologists and memory studies scholars	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
نوع	Qualitative interview-based method	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
منبع بنیادین	Collier, J. (1957). Photography in anthropology: A report on two experiments. American Anthropologist, 59(5), 843–859.	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
نام‌های دیگر	photo-elicitation oral history, image-elicitation life history, visual oral history interview, VEOH	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
مرتبط	4	5
خلاصه	Visual elicitation oral history is a qualitative method that uses photographs, objects, maps, or other visual materials as prompts during oral history interviews. By placing a tangible visual anchor before the narrator, the researcher unlocks richer, more detailed memories and personal meanings than spoken questions alone typically produce. The approach merges John Collier Jr.'s photo-elicitation technique with oral history's commitment to capturing first-person lived experience across time.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.