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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… — 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… — Nick Hornby
- The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships… — Sherry Ortner
- Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated… — Richard Leakey
- Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,… — Marvin Harris
- If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn 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… — Greg Graffin