Fieldworkers

Robin Reid, one of the study authors, said: “This publication has been made possible through collaboration between many researchers and fieldworkers and with support from several organisations.

In California wildfires prevented fieldworkers from harvesting collards, which already had suffered reduced yields thanks to damage from the Santa Ana winds.

In order to apply these methods to non-literate societies, Boas argued that the task of fieldworkers is to produce and collect texts in non-literate societies.

They often operate in a hierarchical structure; a main headquarters being staffed by professionals who plan projects, create budgets, keep accounts, and report and communicate with operational fieldworkers who work directly on projects.