The word freedom lost much of its strength when one’s back…

Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior…

— Marvin Harris

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to…

— Alan Dundes

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you…

— Marlene van Niekerk

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most…

— Aleksandra Mir

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

— Margaret Mead

“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the…

— Theodore C. Bestor

Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about…

— Sarah Parcak

“Fieldwork is probably always more likely to be holistic than lab work or mathematical modeling because in the field you can’t get away from…

— Temple Grandin

I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields;…

— Aleksandra Mir

“I have sweaters older than you,” I mutter. “I’ll give you the discovery to read over tonight. This afternoon I’m going to need you…

— Jodi Picoult

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving…

— Alan Dundes

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their…

— Sherry Ortner

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

— Lily King

“Then, as we turned the final curve past the abandoned little hamlet of Ballydubh, with the village almost out of sight, he forced me…

— Nancy Scheper-Hughes