0:00:01word is an interesting word to used to describe what does not hold just because
0:00:06it's a transported from the natural sciences and it's not to contrast a lot were
0:00:12mostly it's a lot of talking it's observing conversations with people are having not only
0:00:17at how do we
0:00:20talk to people and i and what i thank but we do things but along
0:00:25i
0:00:26so
0:00:27it is about
0:00:28connecting
0:00:30i that a social life and cultural line that people to automatically
0:00:36i think that whatever apology does its process of trying together information where you realise
0:00:41things are not always the parent and it's only by being there is much as
0:00:46possible on a regular basis you can sometimes get a glimpse into people in our
0:00:50lives
0:00:51one
0:00:57we can combine it is you while i'm doing fieldwork and a haitian social service
0:01:04organisation that has historically sir haitian refugees and immigrants the greater boston area i thought
0:01:10of as a very interesting site
0:01:12to think about in terms of questions that came up with the research that i
0:01:16have done in hindi how is it that case of patients were able to the
0:01:21he were able to reestablish new lies in another country going to negotiate a whole
0:01:28new system on the culture and language so
0:01:31trying to see what is it need to be in american what is a need
0:01:34to be is that is and what is a need to be american for those
0:01:36you're coming from a bride here
0:01:41where in londonderry want to study the culture and economy of arms that and are
0:01:46different you thinking and united thing
0:01:48one thing i'm interested in looking at how people learn how to me
0:01:53and then people i have
0:01:56i'm at their kitchen
0:01:58for years other had of idea that they're gonna going to bed
0:02:02and it requires that in the read black then
0:02:05the project more one line
0:02:07g r g
0:02:12so i think as long as you go to choose maker using his or her
0:02:16hands and process
0:02:19and using results is a mixture of source here really
0:02:26differently
0:02:27so it's an interesting place to like a tax break case
0:02:31has
0:02:33expert knowledge is not a guarantee that you're gonna make a good
0:02:36g
0:02:39for
0:02:42some people
0:02:43measured temperature and they're very fastidious and they only do what are the next step
0:02:47and created that exactly the right point another people to say
0:02:51okay
0:03:02that's true
0:03:04so you're material from what proportion right here
0:03:10absolute is what happens to do fieldwork among scientists and one file just
0:03:16what particular entail engaging with everybody factors which are not doing things in laboratory from
0:03:22doing things at feast so i went on a member of research results but to
0:03:27answer particular questions ecological questions i was able to dive german research so often a
0:03:33small
0:03:35some four diameter titanium problem i want to know in this moment of environment prices
0:03:42one and what portion looks like to a scientist to describe it
0:03:45somewhat in practice of the production are reported of knowledge about in this case the
0:03:51motion model
0:04:05one of the things that is a constant theme in this building of this program
0:04:09is questions of citizenship education knowledge about law knowledge about writes all of those are
0:04:17central themes to
0:04:19security that the for example you have all these you are you calls take this
0:04:23to the u
0:04:24he called in sick and they don't the same
0:04:27what is that you have that doesn't
0:04:31benefit
0:04:33it's been interesting to see what is it like for people who are living in
0:04:36those kind of grace pieces of illegality in a way i think anthropologists today many
0:04:43of them are looking at questions of law questions of health
0:04:47questions of relations of power between the sexes those are all ethical more questions would
0:04:52you say there is a lot of
0:04:54discrimination against
0:04:58or against
0:04:59immigrants or against two
0:05:03but i
0:05:05so in many ways anthropologist can shed light on
0:05:09dimensions of human experience that are not readily here we participate we observe we why
0:05:15we use are on
0:05:18subjective first antics area it is
0:05:25the one i'm helping make cheese that
0:05:28participant observation which is an important part of where i don't think i could have
0:05:33really gotten have the vocal work
0:05:35and i there are like that you're very heavy and they have their life incredibly
0:05:41carefully you're really invest and concerns here so the first one for yourself and then
0:05:48it helps better get more informed
0:05:53so in some interesting ways the transformation of
0:05:55of lab techniques and that the coming online of genomic some by informatics s
0:06:00has changed the way that you shuttle back and forth between lab and field
0:06:05i would say that that's absolutely true to arm
0:06:10i think the view of a lot of us now is that it's this
0:06:13iterative cycle and you make some observations in this is how it's always work you
0:06:18have to go back right to the field
0:06:21or to the ocean to test your predictions from its observations
0:06:26i think the surprising thing for me in doing anthropological fieldwork among marine biologist
0:06:31was how
0:06:33similar our questions were about fieldwork itself how is it that you do
0:06:39extended research in the field and come up with the story about what is your
0:06:44trying to describe it at all representative so oceanography and if not you both share
0:06:51the conundrum of how
0:06:53to represent the world in a very real sets the spider abilities to sets
0:06:59you know molecules indirectly or ability sets lotion from space
0:07:04actually
0:07:05a dollar shops in my can you get it continue to remain were marked as
0:07:10well as o
0:07:13this is
0:07:16split fieldwork allows it in my view is the way to see what's
0:07:22no
0:07:23generally on the surface it's a it's a very demanding process but it's
0:07:28it's for me very rewarding to be able to work with people in for them
0:07:32to trust you wind up to allow you into their lives i think that's kind
0:07:37of the most fruitful for