After all these trials and tribulations, I had finally arrived among "my" people, I had my assistant, I had a pen and paper. Having been faced with so many impediments, it was with something of a shock that I realized I was now in a position to "do anthropology". The more I regarded this concept, the less clear it became. If asked to produce a picture of someone about this business, I would be far from sure what he would be doing. All I could offer would be a man who might be climbing a mountain (on his way to "do anthropology") or writing up notes (having "done anthropology"). Obviously a fairly wide definition was required rather like "learning a foreign language abroad". Any time actually spent talking to Dowayos would be considered legitimate, I decided.

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