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...begin by explaining my title. Throughout 1971 and 1972, I lived in a remote longhouse community in central north Borneo, where I was conducting anthropological fieldwork. When I returned to Cambridge early in 1974 I resumed my position as a resident tutor at the cooperative house on Sacramento Street. Like all returning field-workers who have been through a painful process of adaptation to another society, I suffered several weeks of reverse culture shock. I no longer seemed able to function properly in my own culture. For a short while, my expectations of what people were going to do next...
...search committee will probably consider experimentalists, who are skilled at fieldwork with vertebrate populations, Taylor explained, rather than "theoretical" behavioralists, like Wilson
...from this development in minority applications, but each point to different reasons for it. Harvard works mainly through alumni and students. Admissions officials travel around the country, running up a tab of from $30 to $50,000, to add momentum to the local alumni organizations that do the actual fieldwork...
...exceptions to Harvard's current policy, Whitlock said, are programs sponsored by a student's department such as the "Junior Year Abroad" program and "fieldwork" centers like the biology division in Woodshole, Mass...
...that the Redbook committee might consider. In next year's seminar on the "Problems of Bilingual People in an Urban Environment," the student's research will be based on his work as a volunteer in agencies such as schools and hospitals in a Boston bilingual community. The combination of fieldwork with rigorous academic inquiry offers a fruitful organizing principle for the Gen Ed program. It might infuse liberal education at Harvard with a spirit that has waned in the 30 years since the original Redbook attempted to form the Harvard student in the mold of the Renaissance...