Fieldnotes

Several researchers who participated in the SNP fieldwork operations over the years have written fieldnotes detailing their experience. More recently, ethnographers have joined the MDICP team and have made available a wealth of written accounts of their experiences while in Malawi. These fieldnotes and ethnographies are useful to learn about general issues which might have affected the fieldsites and are thus an important tool to understand in which context the quantitative SNP data were collected. Few examples can be accessed below.

MDICP-3
"MDICP3 Ethnographic Project: Assessing Community Reaction to a Large Scale Survey - Field Report", by Anat Rosenthal (Hebrew University).
" 'Azungu' in the Village: An Ethnographer's Account of a Fieldwork Experience in Malawi", by Anat Rosenthal (Hebrew University).

MDICP-4
"Into Africa: Minibuses, nsima, and starting work on an AIDS research project in Malawi", by Jennifer Browning (Berkeley University).

Dionne, Kim Yi. 2006. "Kanthu Kali Munye: A lesson in listening and learning in Rural Malawi." Ufahamu 33(1): 144-163.

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last updated August 21, 2007

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