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“No one plows the field just by thinking about it.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“It is worthwhile studying other peoples, because every understanding of another culture is an experiment with our own.”
― Roy Wagner, The Invention of Culture

“Then, as we turned the final curve past the abandoned little hamlet of Ballydubh, with the village almost out of sight, he forced me to turn around and take in the full sweep of the mountains and the sea. "And there", he said, "is your An Clohan. You had best said good-bye, now.”
― Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland

“Those working in slaughterhouses, for example, are often underpaid and overworked, lack insurance, and are required to use dangerous equipment without adequate training. Turnover and rates of injury for jobs in anymal industries are among the highest in the United States. Slaughterhouse employees are almost always poor, they are often immigrants, and they are inevitably viewed by their employers as expendable. Moreover, if we would not like to kill pigs, hens, or cattle all day long, then we should not make food choices that require others to do so. Our dietary choices determine where others work. Will our poorest laborers work in fields of green or in buildings of blood? Fieldwork is difficult, but I worked in the fields as a child, and I am very glad that I never worked in a slaughterhouse.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions

“We must do the impossible and start before we begin. Before making that first phone call or visit, freewrite (see Elbow, 1981): Write fast and furiously without worrying about spelling or grammar or coherence. Ask yourself, What images do I hold of the people and the place I am about to study and how do I feel about those images? How did I come to study this setting at this time?
Ask yourself about the needs you expect this setting to fulfill: Do I have an axe to grind? Do I have a mission? Am I looking for a cause or a community? Do I expect this study to help me resolve personal problems? Am I hoping to create a different self? What political assumptions do I have? What kinds of setting activities or subgroups might I avoid or discount because of who I am or what I believe?”
― Sherryl Kleinman, Emotions and Fieldwork

“I spent most of the morning surveying the perimeter, wading in and out of the trees. I noted mushroom rings and unusual moss patterns, the folds in the land where flowers grew thick and the places where they slid from one color to another, and those trees which seemed darker and cruder than the others, as if they had drunk a substance other than water. An odd mist billowed from a little hollow cupped within the rugged ground; this I discovered to be a hot spring. Above it, upon a rocky ledge, were several wooden figurines, some half overgrown with moss. There was also a small pile of what I recognized as rock caramels, the salty-sweet Ljosland candies that several of the sailors had favored.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the grassroots realities of everyday life in contemporary Japanese communities, companies, institutions, and social movements.”
― Theodore C. Bestor, Doing Fieldwork in Japan

“The peculiar situation of the anthropological fieldworker, participating simultaneously in two distinct worlds of meaning and action, requires that he relate to his research subjects as an "outsider," trying to "learn" and penetrate their way of life, while relating to his own culture as a kind of metaphorical "native."

To both groups he is a professional stranger, a person who holds himself aloof from their lives in order to gain perspective.”
― Roy Wagner, The Invention of Culture

“In a real sense, the important question is never one of validity or truth. Truth exists in the realm of mathematics and in the philosophy of logic, not in perceptions of reality. For those who would understand the world about them, the question is not one of truth, but of utility. Do our investigations deepen our understanding, further our ability to ask more refined questions, and lead to better predictions of events? If so, then the research is justified. If not, it remains but sophistry.”
― Douglas Raybeck, Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Malaysia

“We cannot achieve immersion without bringing our subjectivity into play.”
― Sherryl Kleinman, Emotions and Fieldwork

“It is unfortunate that some of us worry about losing data but not our thoughts about the data. If we believed in the premises of sociology—that interaction is patterned, that people share meanings, beliefs, and behaviors—then we would trust that the patterns we missed while we were writing will still be there when we return to the field. We are more likely to forget our insights into what we observed.”
― Sherryl Kleinman, Emotions and Fieldwork

“Instead of doing emotion work, we suggest that fieldworkers become more aware of their feelings and use them as data. As Arlie Hochschild (1983) argued, we can use feelings as clues [...]”
― Sherryl Kleinman, Emotions and Fieldwork

“We will probably have the nagging feeling that we are not doing things right. This is good because confronting our negative feelings and our fear of incompetence can help us begin analysis.”
― Sherryl Kleinman, Emotions and Fieldwork

“In these meetings, far away from my home office in a dusty room, with 30 or so people gathered from various local, regional, and corporate vantages, the benefits of inclusion became starkly apparent. We were all in.”
― Paul Pierroz, The Purpose-Driven Marketing Handbook: How to Discover Your Impact and Communicate Your Business Sustainability Story to Grow Sales, Retain Talent, and Attract Investors

“I am too much in love with philosophy to collect data or do field studies.”
― James R. Flynn, What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect

“How many people would even try to be Jane Goodall today? Jane Goodall was a superb fieldworker who lived with animals, observed them closely, and understood them. She did her work in the field, not behind a computer making mathematical models of chimpanzee population.”
― Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“I spent most of the morning surveying the perimeter, wading in and out of the trees. I noted mushroom rings and unusual moss patterns, the folds in the land where flowers grew thick and the places where they slid from one color to another, and those trees which seemed darker and cruder than the others, as if they had drunk a substance other than water. An odd mist billowed from a little hollow cupped within the rugged ground; this I discovered to be a hot spring. Above it, upon a rocky ledge, were several wooden figurines, some half overgrown with moss. There was also a small pile of what I recognized as rock caramels, the slaty-sweet Ljosland candies that several of the sailors had favored.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“I fetched a pair of metal tweezers from my pack and carefully plucked a leaf from the frost. It was lovely, segmented like a maple and white as the trunk and boughs, though it also had a coating of short white hairs, like some sort of beast. I placed the leaf within a small metal box I habitually use to collect such samples, many of which have found their place in the Museum of Dryadology and Ethnofolklore at Cambridge.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“es inútil concentrarse en exclusivamente en nuestro propio "proyecto de ¾±²Ô±¹±ð²õ³Ù¾±²µ²¹³¦¾±Ã³²Ô". Es preciso tener una curiosidad incesante por todo, aguzar ojos y oídos y tomar notas sin excluir nada. Esa es la gran bendición de este tipo de trabajo. La experiencia de extrañeza hace que todos nuestros sentidos sean mucho más sensibles que lo habitual, y nuestra afición a la comparación se profundiza. Por eso, el trabajo de campo es también tan útil cuando volvemos a casa. En el ínterin, hemos desarrollado hábitos de observación y comparación que nos instan u obligan a comenzar a advertir que nuestra propia cultura es igualmente extraña, siempre que observemos con cuidado, comparemos sin cesar y mantengamos nuestra distancia antropolóogica.”
― Benedict Anderson, A Life Beyond Boundaries

“es inútil concentrarse en exclusivamente en nuestro propio "proyecto de ¾±²Ô±¹±ð²õ³Ù¾±²µ²¹³¦¾±Ã³²Ô". Es preciso tener una curiosidad incesante por todo, aguzar ojos y oídos y tomar notas sin excluir nada. Esa es la gran bendición de este tipo de trabajo. La experiencia de extrañeza hace que todos nuestros sentidos sean mucho más sensibles que lo habitual, y nuestra afición a la comparación se profundiza. Por eso, el trabajo de campo es también tan útil cuando volvemos a casa. En el ínterin, hemos desarrollado hábitos de observación y comparación que nos instan u obligan a comenzar a advertir que nuestra propia cultura es igualmente extraña, siempre que observemos con cuidado, comparemos sin cesar y mantengamos nuestra distancia antropológica.”
― Benedict Anderson, A Life Beyond Boundaries

“In other words, I had seen the skeletons hidden in the closet, and now, regretfully, I wished that I had interviewed them instead.”
― Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

“Sometimes this story is full of love and hope. Sometimes it is full of anger and resentment. This is how I was trained to write as an anthropologist: not to avoid bias but to be up front with it.”
― Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

“Fieldwork is where theory meets truth.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero