Fieldwork Quotes

11 quotes by 9 authors

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

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