Fieldwork Quotes
11 quotes by 9 authors
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The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games…
— Nick Hornby
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The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial…
— Sherry Ortner
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Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane…
— Richard Leakey
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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
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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about…
— Alan Dundes
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
— Margaret Mead
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I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest…
— Greg Graffin
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Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about 70…
— Sarah Parcak
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Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade…
— Alan Dundes
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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 original…
— Alan Dundes
Who Wrote These Fieldwork Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 11 Fieldwork Quotes as follows: