*facepalm*

[cimorene]

a new course in folkloristics today.

Professor Surprise¹: what do you think about when you hear the word "fieldwork"? anyone?
me: jane goodall.
[silence]
Professor Surprise: who?
me: you know, that woman - with the chimpanzees?
Professor Surprise: oh - i don't know, but i'll just write "chimpanzees", okay?

[Poll #902689]


1. Professor Surprise is wee and perky and seems nice. her name results from her very short and wide-set, rather high eyebrows. she looks perpetually surprised, or at least very, very intent.

Comments

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Jane Goodall observed Gorillas, I thought?

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I voted yes, but I thought it was gorillas. I did know that Jane Goodall = monkeys, though. So.

[revulo.livejournal.com]

...what? You're kidding.

[copracat]

So, what was her ultimate point about fieldwork?

[ida-pea.livejournal.com]

Jane Goodall came to speak at my highschool once. She was really cool!

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

I'm probably an outlier or something, but when I was a kid, I wanted to be Jane Goodall.

I find it hard to believe that anyone talking about fieldwork wouldn't know her, though I suppose the fact that she studied non-human animals might keep her off the radar of someone in folklore. I guess I might have ended up going with someone more obvious, like Claude Levi-Strauss (whom I hope your teacher knows *g*).

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

I had a big human-rights-for-apes thing going on as a teenager. Later I dropped it because thinking about it made me way, way too anxious (...although, what doesn't).