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	Storia Orale Partecipata	Etnografia
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1970s–1990s (formalized participatory dimension by 1990)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Ideatore	Michael Frisch (shared authority concept); broader roots in Alessandro Portelli and oral history movement	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Tipo	Qualitative participatory research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Fonte seminale	Frisch, M. (1990). A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791402481	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	community oral history, collaborative oral history, participatory memory research, POH	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	Participatory oral history is a qualitative research design in which community members act as co-researchers alongside academic investigators to collect, interpret, and share first-person accounts of lived experience and collective memory. Drawing on Michael Frisch's concept of 'shared authority,' it repositions research participants as active agents in the knowledge-production process rather than passive informants, making it especially powerful for documenting marginalized voices and community-held histories that would otherwise remain invisible in official archives.	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.