Fieldwork Quotes

• Recuerda siempre que eres absolutamente único. Como todo el mundo.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirador, Divertido, Inspirador

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

  Margaret Mead

  Air, Way, Metamorphosis

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

  Lily King

  Writing, Hell, Novel

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Opposites, Exotic, World

  Entrevista con Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. 1 de enero de 2004.

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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 - based on information collected through fieldwork.

  Marvin Harris

  Mean, People, Portraits

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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 and swarms of tsetse flies.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Important, Legends, Fierce

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Yo era un pésimo académico. Me pasaba la mayor parte del tiempo en la cafetería. Pero conocí a gente fantástica de todo tipo de campos; derecho, medicina, historia, y acabaron dispersándose por todo el mundo para hacer su trabajo de campo. Me gustó el modo en que estas personas se comprometían a largo plazo de forma sincera y visionaria. Sus proyectos no eran para "la próxima temporada". Eran compromisos a diez años. Eran opciones de estilo de vida que incorporaban tradiciones de trabajo de campo: desplazarse, vivir en el lugar, disciplina, un verdadero rigor para la investigación.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Conmovedor, Compromiso

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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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 fieldwork experiences and their lives. Illustrating the dense interweaving of the personal and the professional that is the hallmark of anthropology as a vocation, these essays are at once affectively deep reflections, and clear-eyed assessments, of lives often lived 'between here and there.' Alma Gottlieb's idea to stimulate these articles and bring together this collection was inspired.

  Sherry Ortner

  Powerful, Reflection, Assessment

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• 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 have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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• Si un estudiante sigue toda la serie de mis cursos de folclore, incluidos los seminarios de posgrado, debería aprender algo sobre trabajo de campo, algo sobre bibliografía, algo sobre cómo llevar a cabo una investigación bibliográfica y algo sobre cómo publicar esa investigación.

  Alan Dundes

  Inspiración, Divertido, Graduación

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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 or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.

  Nick Hornby

  Sports, School, Europe

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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 crash twelve years ago.

  Richard Leakey

  Airplane, Years, Twelve

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