Confronta i metodi

	Analisi Visiva Partecipata	Etnografia
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1990s (formalized participatory visual methods); Freire roots 1970s	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Ideatore	Wang & Burris (photovoice tradition); broader roots in participatory action research (Fals-Borda, Freire)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Tipo	Qualitative participatory research approach	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Fonte seminale	Wang, C., & Burris, M. A. (1997). Photovoice: Concept, methodology, and use for participatory needs assessment. Health Education and Behavior, 24(3), 369–387.	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	PVA, participatory visual methods, collaborative visual inquiry, community-based visual analysis	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	Participatory Visual Analysis (PVA) is a qualitative research approach in which community members or research participants actively produce and interpret visual materials — photographs, drawings, videos, or maps — as a means of documenting their own experiences, surfacing knowledge, and informing action. Rather than the researcher imposing an analytical gaze on pre-existing images, participants are co-investigators who create visual data and participate in its interpretation, making the method both epistemologically democratic and particularly powerful for accessing marginalized or hard-to-articulate perspectives.	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.