Confronta i metodi

	Storia orale comparata	Storia Orale
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1970s–1990s (oral history discipline; comparative application developed through 1990s)	1948 (modern disciplinary form); broader roots in 19th-century folklore and anthropology
Ideatore	Alessandro Portelli, Paul Thompson (oral history tradition); comparative design adapted from cross-cultural qualitative research	Allan Nevins (Columbia University Oral History Project, 1948); earlier roots in folk-life and anthropological fieldwork
Tipo	Qualitative comparative research design	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Portelli, A. (1991). The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791404997	Ritchie, D. A. (2003). Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195176957
Alias	comparative oral history, cross-group oral history, comparative oral testimony, multi-site oral history	life history interview, oral testimony, spoken history, oral narrative research
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Comparative oral history collects and systematically compares first-person spoken testimonies from two or more distinct groups, communities, or historical contexts. The method blends the interpretive depth of oral history — privileging personal memory and narrative — with the analytical logic of comparative design, enabling researchers to identify both shared patterns and meaningful differences across the groups under study.	Oral history is a qualitative research method that collects, preserves, and interprets first-person spoken accounts of past events, experiences, and social processes. By recording in-depth interviews with individuals who witnessed or participated in historical events, oral historians document perspectives that written records often exclude. The method bridges historical scholarship and social science, treating the narrator's memory, subjectivity, and voice as primary evidence rather than as limitations to be corrected.