The Tanzanian Ethnographic
Field School
On this six-week field school, Dickinson students gained practical training in field research on problems at the intersections of culture, history, environment, and health in eastern Africa. Social scientists, historians, and health professionals emphasize the need for integrated, cross-disciplinary knowledge when addressing changing health and cultural issues in Africa. Such knowledge begins with library research but must be developed through sound fieldwork. Students read and received lectures from the program directors and Tanzanian professionals and stakeholders about such issues. Through fieldwork students learned directly from Tanzanians about how they encounter such issues in the course of their lives. Students conducted research exercises during initial weeks of the field school in Arusha and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Zanzibar, and Dar es Salaam. In the final weeks in the Rift Valley of southwest Tanzania, students worked with college-age Tanzanian translators to carry out directed research projects.
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