Comparer des méthodes

	Sensory Ethnography	Material Culture Analysis
Domaine	Anthropology	Anthropology
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	2009	2012
Auteur d'origine	Sarah Pink (building on the anthropology of the senses)	Material culture studies tradition (Ian Hodder; Appadurai/Kopytoff object-biography lineage)
Type	Fieldwork and representation attending to the full sensorium	Systematic study of objects as evidence about culture and social relations
Source fondatrice	Pink, S. (2009). Doing Sensory Ethnography. London: Sage. ISBN: 9781446287316	Hodder, I. (2012). Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 9780470672129
Alias	Sensorial Ethnography, Ethnography of the Senses, Multisensory Ethnography, Sensory Fieldwork	Material Culture Studies, Object Analysis, Artefact Analysis, Anthropology of Things
Apparentées	4	4
Résumé	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.	Material culture analysis is the systematic study of physical objects and artefacts — tools, clothing, buildings, gifts, commodities, everyday possessions — as evidence about the people and societies that make, use, exchange, and discard them. It treats things not as inert backdrop but as active participants in social life, carrying meanings, structuring practices, and binding people into relationships. Drawing on object-biography thinking and on Ian Hodder's account of human–thing entanglement, it asks what an object's form, history, and circulation can reveal about culture that words alone cannot.