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Fieldwork in Guatemala

Collecting and working with my own material has been an incredibly rewarding and educational experience for me. When planning such a project, it may be easy to forget that one is working with actual people who have their own stories, thoughts and ideas. I have learnt a lot about planning and working with interview material, and most importantly, I have learnt to improvise.

I will now present the result of my fieldwork, which I also see as the interviewees’ answers to my research questions. Part II is divided in 6 chapters, where the first chapter will explain how some of the most common terms are used. The rest of the chapters in Part II deal with the interviewees’ opinions on the subjects of becoming and working as ajq’ijab.

The central park in Quetzaltenango. On the ground, a cofradia, a 'saint-cultfrom one of the city’s Catholic churches is making a mosaic of coloured sawdust, meant to be trampled over a few hours later by a procession honouring St Mary of the Rosary. To the left my assistant, Victor Garcia, is admiring the work.

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- Fieldwork in Guatemala
The major part of this project consisted of collecting and systematising empirical material. This is also reflected in the relative sizes of the three parts of the text, where Part II clearly is the largest. For my fieldwork, I travelled to the city of Quetzaltenango in Guatemala, where I interviewed...
(Balancing the World: Contemporary Maya ajq’ijab in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala)
Fieldwork
As noted above, in 2009, i conducted participant observation for three and a half months at three drop-in play centers for parents and preschoolers in tokyo. During that time, i had conversations with mothers and staff. I also took part in the centers' activities. These included educational sessions...
(Capturing contemporary Japan: differentiation and uncertainty)
Guatemala
Long Name: Republic of Guatemala Location: Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Mexico, and bordering the Gulf of Honduras (Caribbean Sea) between Honduras and Belize Area: 42,042 sq. mi. (108,890 sq. km) Climate: tropical; hot, humid in lowlands; cooler in highlands...
(The handy geography answer book)
From Centre to Periphery: Inequality, Indigeneity and Domestic Tourism in Guatemala
Chantell LaPan E-mail: cmlapan@ncsu.edu © CAB International 2017 Linking Urban and Rural Tourism: Strategies in Sustainability (eds S.L. Slocum and C. Kline) Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Introduction...
(Linking urban and rural tourism : strategies in sustainability)
Tourism in Guatemala: Strangers and Neighbours
Travel to Latin America has occurred for centuries (Bowman, 2013). The region was initially frequented by backpackers and adventurers in search of remote and authentic experiences (Baud and Ypeij, 2009). By comparison to other countries in the region, international tourism in Guatemala has developed...
(Linking urban and rural tourism : strategies in sustainability)
My Fieldwork among the Gadaba
This study is based on twenty-two months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Odisha between January 1999 and January 2003, in four phases.^ In order to allow the reader to better evaluate the results of my work, I will briefly describe the conditions of research and my working methods. Since the choice...
(Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India)
Brief History of Fieldwork
Simplifying the history of the discipline somewhat, we can distinguish four stages in anthropology’s approach to fieldwork. 1. “armchair anthropology” (late nineteenth century) 2. the institutionalization of fieldwork (early twentieth century) 3. the “flowering” of ethnographic practice (late...
(Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India)
Second Phase of My Fieldwork
In September 1999 - the last month of the rainy season -1 arrived in Odisha for a year’s stay. The first four weeks were taken up with visits to our partner university in western Odisha, with many organizational tasks, and with purchasing the motorcycle. My return to the village was a positive experience,...
(Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India)
Third Phase of My Fieldwork
The third phase of my fieldwork began in November 2001, after a hectic eight weeks in Germany, and lasted six months. This time, no more organizational preparatory work was necessary, and I went straight to Gudapada. Only forty-eight hours after my plane left Berlin, the bus dropped me off, and when...
(Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India)