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	Etnografia sul Campo	Etnografia	Etnografia Longitudinale
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Early 20th century (Malinowski 1922; Geertz 1973)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)	1920s (classical origins); refined 1990s–2000s
Ideatore	Bronislaw Malinowski; Clifford Geertz (interpretive tradition)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology	Rooted in classical anthropological fieldwork (Malinowski, 1922); systematised for sociological revisits by Michael Burawoy (2003)
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition	Qualitative research design
Fonte seminale	Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books. ISBN: 978-0465097197	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462	Burawoy, M. (2003). Revisits: An outline of a theory of reflexive ethnography. American Sociological Review, 68(5), 645–679.
Alias	fieldwork ethnography, immersive ethnography, ethnographic fieldwork, site-based ethnography	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research	extended ethnography, long-term fieldwork, sustained ethnographic study, longitudinal field research
Correlati	6	5	5
Sintesi	Field-based ethnography is a qualitative research design in which the researcher immerses themselves in a social setting or community over an extended period, observing and participating in everyday life to understand cultural practices, meanings, and social dynamics from an insider perspective. It is the classical form of ethnography, grounded in sustained physical presence at a research site, and distinguished from archival, virtual, or document-only approaches by its central reliance on direct, embodied fieldwork.	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.	Longitudinal ethnography is a qualitative research design in which a researcher conducts sustained, repeated fieldwork with the same community, organisation, or group across an extended period — months to decades. By returning to the field at multiple time points, the researcher captures how social processes, meanings, and structures evolve, making it the only qualitative method capable of directly observing change and continuity in lived experience.