There is a growing amount of contributions today applying phenomenology and its approach to the experience in fields of anthropological and ethnographic research. The convergence of phenomenology and anthropology is neither a matter of chance, nor is it entirely new. Firstly, I will follow thematic areas of this cooperation, and I will present particular projects (researches of religious experience, imagination and corporeality). Secondly, I will specify the approach and applied methods which phenomenology brings into the discourse of specialized sciences (such as shared experience, first person and second person approach). Last but not least, I will follow upon the original relationship between phenomenology and anthropology, which lead us to works of E. Husserl, H. Plessner and M. Merleau-Ponty; that is not supposed to be just a historical looking back, but also an actualization of such themes, which can be productively developed anew even today.