All too often it seemed that I would start fieldwork, following hedgehogs, in a rain-sodden early April.
I've known several Maya archaeologists who routinely started fieldwork in a new area by heading into a dive bar and hoisting beers with the locals while listening to various bullshitters spin tales about ruins they'd seen in the jungle; once in a while, a story would turn out to be true.
This project was originally developed by Gabriela Caballero, who started fieldwork in collaboration with Choguita Rarámuri speakers in 2003, completing a dissertation on the phonology and morphology of the language at the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 (see 2019-001.014 for the dissertation).
The first mistake she made was assuming that she would be ready to start fieldwork in a specific village after just arriving in India.
Both authors are academics working in a Higher Education Institution, and thus started fieldwork with an outsider perspective.
Wednesday morning in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, which is known as Tana, and with all research permits now in hand, it is time to start thinking about the practical aspects of starting the fieldwork.
They were very curious about this gorilla-like animal that does such different things [to them]." In 1970, only three years after starting her fieldwork, Fossey appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine.
There was a delay of up to 18 months between the household survey and starting the fieldwork in some villages.
"I started my fieldwork when Trump was still a reality TV star!
When I started doing fieldwork in microfinance, I remember one of the most powerful things for those receiving loans was that somebody saw these poor individuals as creditworthy.
