{margin} Field work conditions
Reached Adana about 10.00 pm. and had a walk round the centre and bought a bus ticket. Finally found the cafe.
Met i(0161 Hseyn Isik) and i(0139 Mehmet Gkpinar) - joined by i(Haci Ates), who drank quite a lot of beer.
Quite a good conversation with them, but i(Haci) and others' arrival broke the thread.
p.m. went to see i(Zeliha Sahin)- quite difficult to keep a conversation going, but no real difficulty in understanding.
Evening - whole crowd - made my serious information gathering more or less impossible.
I find it very difficult to pursue systematic query on one point, and in spite of the double think - (what am I getting out of this occasion/bloke?) I fail
constantly to ask the "right" questions and equally to remember the conversation. To write up Adana a whole week late is of course criminal negligence.
k(Adana, migrants, cafe, field notes, home visit, working conditions>
{c: V.i. I had not spoken Turkish for years; and was trying to do serious field work in 2 days. But overloading with appointments, and not writing up is all
too easy, especially in towns, where you have to make appointments to find people at all. I was of course making rough notes all the time. Is this sensible?
Learn to write legibly, and keep all 'rough' notes, edited as soon as possible? I did this finally in 1990s}
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