Vertaile menetelmiä

	Sensory Ethnography	Etnografinen tutkimus
Tieteenala	Anthropology	Laadullinen tutkimus
Menetelmäperhe	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Syntyvuosi	2009	1920s–1970s
Kehittäjä	Sarah Pink (building on the anthropology of the senses)	Anthropology (Malinowski, Boas); applied in health and sociology (Geertz)
Tyyppi	Fieldwork and representation attending to the full sensorium	Method
Alkuperäislähde	Pink, S. (2009). Doing Sensory Ethnography. London: Sage. ISBN: 9781446287316	Geertz, C. (1973). The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays. Basic Books.
Rinnakkaisnimet	Sensorial Ethnography, Ethnography of the Senses, Multisensory Ethnography, Sensory Fieldwork	Ethnography, Participatory Observation, Field Research
Liittyvät	4	4
Tiivistelmä	Sensory ethnography, developed by Sarah Pink, is an approach to fieldwork and representation that treats human experience as fundamentally multisensory and embodied, attending deliberately to smell, touch, sound, taste, and movement alongside the sight and text that conventional ethnography privileges. Rather than reducing fieldwork to what can be observed and written down, it asks the researcher to participate in and reflect on the felt, sensed texture of everyday life. It then seeks forms of representation — evocative writing, audio, video, walking with people — that can convey that sensory knowing to others.	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.