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...really something else: a scientific-looking compendium of information about a people who might exist in the distant future. They are called the Kesh, a gentle tribe living in the nine towns of the valley of the river Na, somewhere in Northern California. Le Guin's fieldwork into their rites and customs comes decked out with maps, charts, tables and drawings. Also accompanying the book (and accounting for its steeper-than-normal price) is a tape recording of Kesh poetry and music...
...anthropologists bother to do fieldwork at all? Nigel Barley, an anthropologist and African specialist at London's Museum of Mankind, ponders the question in this witty memoir of his hapless adventures. Some go to grind an ax or two, as students of Margaret Mead now know. But Barley believes that most anthropologists pursue fieldwork for its cheery reminiscences and lifelong opportunities to one-up colleagues who have never traveled. Experience abroad, he says, confers a "valuable aura of eccentricity upon the really rather dull denizens of anthropology departments...
Guernsey says he saw the need for the shelter when he started working last fall as an intern for the Harvard Square Churches Meal Program--which serves needy patrons a hot meal at Christ church on Garden St. Required to do some supervised fieldwork for his ministerial program at the Divinity School, Guernsey elected to help people entering the program who needed other social services...
...life. Chinese authorities claimed that Mosher bribed villagers to get his material, entered restricted areas and violated cus toms regulations. They have threatened that unless Stanford disciplines its doctor al candidate, other scholars may suffer. Stanford is holding an investigation to determine whether Mosher violated professional ethics in his fieldwork, but a university spokesman last week protested what Stanford saw as Chinese attempts to link the Mosher and Wichser cases...
Maryknoll priests train for seven years, with fieldwork overseas or in the prisons or skid rows of the U.S. The challenge attracts only a handful nowadays (only three men will be ordained this year), but the Maryknoll Society remains the biggest U.S. Catholic foreign mission, with 765 priests, 109 brothers and 68 lay missioners. The separate order of Maryknoll Sisters has 975 nuns...