The Geographical Review, January 1st, 2001
DR. ARREOLA is a professor of geography at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-0104.
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Fieldwork is a much-heralded element of geographical tradition. For some of us on the landscape side of the tradition, fieldwork is even a primary inspiration. But, as with the sister discipline of anthropology, fieldwork has evolved through the recent convolutions of cultural studies. When I began as a geographer nearly a quarter-century ago, the so-called muddy-boots variant of fieldwork was all but sacrosanct. Although that practice is still popular among certain cultural types who c...
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