...exercised character; at those times we feel clean. — MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. — MARGARET MEAD Do not fear when your enemies criticize you beware when they applaud. — Vo DONG...

...convinced than ever," Margaret Mead wrote from Arapesh Alitoa in 1932, "that the way to do field work is never to come up for air until it is all over" (Mead 1977: 128). "Although a cliche," Hortense Powdermaker recalled, "the saying is true that insight...

...acknowledge my return. At my desk I open my notebook and begin writing. CHAPTER "The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over." —Margaret Mead Nothing! I hit the enter key on my laptop again hoping the spreadsheet will reveal...