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.
Quotes about fieldwork (5 Quotes)
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.
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.
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.
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.