Fieldwork Quotes

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 research. - Alan Dundes

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 to serve as an informant. - Alan Dundes

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

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

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 bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. - Alan Dundes

Based on our fieldwork, we have found that almost all the features of traditional cliff cave dwelling coincide with modern sustainable design principles. These cave dwellings reflect a core concept of Chinese culture?being in harmony with nature. They are the result of a people's adaptation to their environment with limited natural and technological resources. The people and their culture survived here for hundreds of years without leaving heavy marks on the environment. - Jiang Lu