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	Fenomenologia Ermeneutica	Etnografia
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Philosophical roots 1927 (Heidegger); systematic research method from 1980s–1990s	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Ideatore	Martin Heidegger (philosophical foundation); Max van Manen (methodological application)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Tipo	Qualitative research method	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Fonte seminale	van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791404645	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	Heideggerian phenomenology, interpretive phenomenology, hermeneutic inquiry, van Manen phenomenology	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Correlati	6	5
Sintesi	Hermeneutic phenomenology is a qualitative research approach that investigates the interpreted meaning of lived experience from within the existential conditions that shape it. Rooted in Heidegger's ontology and developed as an empirical method by Max van Manen, it does not seek to bracket or suspend the researcher's understanding but instead treats that understanding as the very medium through which the meaning of experience can be disclosed. The approach is widely used in education, nursing, and social sciences to explore how people dwell in, and make sense of, their world.	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.