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	ชาติพันธุ์วรรณนาภาคสนาม	ชาติพันธุ์วรรณนา
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	Early 20th century (Malinowski 1922; Geertz 1973)	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Bronislaw Malinowski; Clifford Geertz (interpretive tradition)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
ประเภท	Qualitative research design	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books. ISBN: 978-0465097197	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	fieldwork ethnography, immersive ethnography, ethnographic fieldwork, site-based ethnography	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	5
สรุป	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.	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.