השוואת שיטות

	Ethnographic Interview	Free Listing
תחום	Anthropology	Anthropology
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1979	1988
הוגה השיטה	James P. Spradley	Cognitive anthropology tradition (formalized by Weller & Romney; Borgatti)
סוג	Structured developmental sequence of interview questions for eliciting cultural knowledge	Elicitation procedure for the items and salience of a cultural domain
מקור מכונן	Spradley, J. P. (1979). The Ethnographic Interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN: 9780030444968	Weller, S. C., & Romney, A. K. (1988). Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research Methods Series 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780803930742
כינויים	Spradley Interview, Developmental Research Sequence Interview, Ethnographic Interviewing, Domain Elicitation Interview	Free Lists, Free-List Task, Free Recall Listing, Freelisting
קשורות	3	4
תקציר	The ethnographic interview, formalized by James Spradley, is a deliberately staged conversation whose goal is to discover how an insider categorizes and talks about their own cultural world rather than to test the researcher's categories. It proceeds through a developmental research sequence of question types — broad grand-tour questions, fine-grained descriptive questions, structural questions that probe how knowledge is organized, and contrast questions that surface the distinctions informants draw between terms. The point is not a list of facts but a reconstructed map of meanings expressed in the informant's own native terms.	Free listing is a foundational elicitation technique in cognitive anthropology in which informants are asked to name, in any order, all the items they can think of that belong to a cultural domain — for example 'all the kinds of fruit' or 'all the things that can give you a cold.' Aggregating these lists reveals both the content of the domain (which items belong) and the salience of each item (how culturally central it is), inferred from how frequently and how early it is mentioned.