Talk is Cheap: Cultural and Linguistic Fluency During Field Research.

From: The Geographical Review | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

DR. VEECK is an associate professor of geography at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-5053.

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A great attraction of geography for many practitioners is an opportunity for the kind of field research that regularly takes us from our natal culture and plunks us, Cinderella-style, into places with significantly different pumpkins and coachmen. Our projects generate basic information, test the efficacy of current theory, and allow us to serve as bridges across cultures through our research, teaching, publications, and outreach. Field research serves ...

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