For lust of knowing: introduction to the scope and purpose of the book -- Tales, marvellous tales: recognizing good fieldwork and reading wisely -- Beyond that last blue mountain: impediments to good fieldwork and how to overcome them -- Manuscripts in peacock styles: writing diaries, data and texts -- Gnawing the nail of hurry: choosing the topic, setting and problem -- Sweet to ride forth: gaining access and recording the process -- Beauty and bright faith: early days in the field and how to record them -- Spikenard, mastic and terebinth: varieties of data collected and recorded -- Seek not excess: maintaining relationships in the field -- Leaving the dim-moon city of delight: terminating your fieldwork -- Beauty lives though lilies die: analysing and theorizing -- For glory or for gain: producing the thesis or book -- Always a little further: the conclusions

1. Education -- Research
2. Education -- Field work