Tag Archives: fieldwork
Day 8: Blue Creek

Absolutely all of the concern is gone. I almost can’t believe that I nearly left. It seems so silly now….

Day 7: Doubt

I woke up this morning in paradise with a headache, feeling out of sorts. Up at 6 in the tent…

Day 5: Hummingbird Highway

Night falls fast in the tropics: obviously. I’m typing by the light of my screen at mile 29 of the…

Day 3: Stone Woman Revisited

Day 3: Stone Woman Revisited A certain shape of the days ahead is growing in my mind. That shape, at…

Nostalgia and fireflies: Belize Day 1

For the next two weeks I will be in Belize conducting a bit of preliminary fieldwork. It has been 11…

PhD fieldwork advice? Give up when things are bad and mess around

I have just participated in a workshop entitled Doing Fieldwork in Latin America at the University of Glasgow. I was…