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Deir Erika Brady: “if a cartoonist were to sketch the popular image of what we do, it would probably depict three emblematic elements: the fieldworker (earnest, intrepid but selfeffacing, eager to ‘save the lore’), the subject (earnest, reflective, lore-laden), and a mechanical device mediating the encounter, the conduit for the exchange” (Brady 1999, 52).