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	Storia orale interpretativa	Ricerca interpretativa sulla storia di vita
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1970s–1990s (interpretive turn in oral history)	1920s–1980s (Chicago School origins; interpretive turn 1980s–1990s)
Ideatore	Alessandro Portelli; Donald Ritchie	Daniel Bertaux; Allison Cole & J. Gary Knowles (interpretive tradition)
Tipo	Qualitative research design	Qualitative interpretive research design
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: 978-0791406229	Cole, A. L., & Knowles, J. G. (2001). Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759101302
Alias	interpretive oral history method, hermeneutic oral history, oral history interpretation, IOH	life history method, interpretive biographical method, life history inquiry, lived-life narrative research
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Interpretive oral history is a qualitative research design that collects and analyzes first-person spoken accounts of the past through an explicitly interpretive lens. Rather than treating recorded testimony as a transparent factual record, it foregrounds the meaning-making process — examining how narrators construct, remember, and frame their experiences — drawing on hermeneutic and interpretive traditions to illuminate subjectivity, memory, and historical consciousness.	Interpretive life history research is a qualitative design in which the researcher and participant collaboratively construct a detailed account of the participant's entire life course — or a significant portion of it — and then interpret that account to understand how identity, context, and meaning-making unfold over time. Grounded in an interpretive epistemology, it treats the narrator's life story not as a neutral record of facts but as a meaning-laden construction shaped by culture, social position, and lived experience.