In Gmelch’s article “Lessons from the Field” he writes of his students’ adventure into Barbados to do some Ethnographic fieldwork. This article is about how the experiences his students had affected them as people. Throughout the article it explains how the students’ perceptions of their own lives were changed by living inside this other culture as anthropologists doing fieldwork. Gmelch studied their journals they kept to show these changes of perception.
To understand what kind of changes these students went through you have to understand that they are the average middle class suburbanite or city kid. They are all privileged college students much like my peers in this class. So
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