Word: fieldwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moore is 32 and still working on his degree in meteorology at Oklahoma University. He admits fieldwork appeals more to him than the written thesis that still separates him from a degree. But he is regarded as an expert contract worker and weather photographer, and when tornadic storms are pelting his truck with hail and threatening imminent catastrophe, Moore's language can be impressively scientific. He has caught up with and photographed more than 60 tornadoes in the past eight years, and he speaks expertly of anvils and shears, gust fronts and vortexes, lips and inflow bands...
Margaret Mead accomplished what few anthropologists have ever attained--public fame. She helped popularize what for most Americans was an obscure field dealing with foreign cultures in far-flung places. Not only was she one of the first anthropologists to write for the general public but in her fieldwork in Samoa, New Guinea, Bali and even South Dakota she also attempted to integrate psychology and anthropology into a more all-inclusive social science...
...last week S.I.L. missions faced a serious rebuff in one of their most successful fieldwork areas-among tribes deep in the Amazon jungles of Brazil. The natives are not hostile-far from it. Forty-four field teams, mostly married couples, backed by five support bases equipped with light planes and sophisticated radio gear, have been peaceably at work for 22 years. But the government of Brazil has suddenly announced that in 1978 it will not renew permits for S.I.L. field teams to work in remote areas administered by the National Indian Foundation. No official explanation has been offered...
...begin by explaining my title. Throughout 1971 and 1972, I lived in a remote longhouse community in central north Borneo, where I was conducting anthropological fieldwork. When I returned to Cambridge early in 1974 I resumed my position as a resident tutor at the cooperative house on Sacramento Street. Like all returning field-workers who have been through a painful process of adaptation to another society, I suffered several weeks of reverse culture shock. I no longer seemed able to function properly in my own culture. For a short while, my expectations of what people were going to do next...
When I first began fieldwork in Borneo I was disconcerted by the total lack of formulae of greeting. "Good morning" cannot be translated into Berawan. In the longhouse everyone is up and about soon after dawn, and since there is no plumbing the day often begins with a trip to the jungle. Every morning I met someone coming the other way as I wandered blearily down one of the tracks that lead away from the house. I would fumble for some simple form of greeting but invariably the person spoken to would look surprised and come to a complete halt...