ABSTRACT
Grindal, Bruce Salamone, Frank In the past twenty years, “doing” anthropology has become more and more complex. In the days when we traveled long distances to far-off places, our fieldwork stayed in the field. Now, the distances have been narrowed. Informants have become consultants. Consultants are our friends. As such, they can board a plane in their land and come to visit, spending long nights in earnest conversation about truth and meaning and enlightenment and expectations. In the days when we wrote only inscrutable manuscripts circulated among colleagues, there was no one to dispute the validity of our work except another “expert” in the area. Now, our consultant-friends are critics, editors of our written words, commentators of their lives, and ours.
