Going Out of My Mind in Jandiayacu
This is a photo I took in July, 2014, during my fieldwork in Jandiayacu. Jandiayacu is a Sapara community in the Amazonian region of Ecuador. It is accessible only by plane or a difficult journey on...
View ArticleDon’t Quote Me On This!
Here is a photo I took of an elderly woman in Jandiayacu. She is one of very few people (possible only five remaining) who speak and have a deep knowledge of the Sapara Language. The knowledge of...
View ArticleLearning to Fail or Failing to Learn
Here is a picture of me and a Sapara boy taken on my camera by a girl in Jandiayacu, the Sapara community where I began my research. Nobody really talks about how or why his or her research failed, or...
View ArticleAre We All Expert Impostors?
Image credit: PhD Comics www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1723 In a previous post (which can be found here), I mentioned the ‘impostor phenomenon’ and how I and many people I know who work...
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