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	Etnografia sul Campo	Etnografia partecipativa
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Early 20th century (Malinowski 1922; Geertz 1973)	1990s–2000s (collaborative turn); classical roots early 20th century
Ideatore	Bronislaw Malinowski; Clifford Geertz (interpretive tradition)	Rooted in classical ethnography (Malinowski, Boas); collaborative turn formalised by Luke Eric Lassiter and others in the 1990s–2000s
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
Fonte seminale	Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books. ISBN: 978-0465097197	Lassiter, L. E. (2005). The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226469058
Alias	fieldwork ethnography, immersive ethnography, ethnographic fieldwork, site-based ethnography	collaborative ethnography, participatory fieldwork, engaged ethnography, community-based ethnography
Correlati	6	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.	Participatory ethnography is a qualitative research design in which community members are not merely subjects of study but active collaborators throughout the research process — from problem formulation and data collection to analysis and writing. Building on classical ethnographic fieldwork, it shifts the researcher–participant relationship toward genuine partnership, producing knowledge that is accountable to the communities from which it emerges.