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"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."
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"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."
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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."
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"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
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"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."
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"I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research."
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"A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher."
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"No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers."
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"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."
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"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."
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"Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge."
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"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."
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"The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it."
Education
"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."
Cultural
"Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment."
Cultural
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
Identity
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Life
"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."
Family
"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."
Education
"They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method."
Theory
"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."
Life
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