Research in the Highways and Byways: Non-Traditional Sources for Literary and Other Research

• Main Author: Fernandez, Doreen G.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: dictionary reasearch; fieldwork; folk sources; oral history'
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss2/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1074/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n02_2002_5D_202.1_Article_Fernandez.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Fieldwork may well be the oldest research method on earth, but in this day of libraries, the internet, and other kinds of information storage and retrieval systems, it is new again. Going out and talking to individuals—and each person knows something he can talk about, usually something unique and v...