Acknowledgments Introduction: Onto the Frontlines Part I: Dialogues Chapter 1: History Lessons from an Indochinese Diary David Del Testa Chapter 2: Beyond the Archives: A Practical Guide for Ethical Research in Latin America Mark Carey Chapter 3: Studying Wild Spotted Hyenas in Kenya: Challenges and Implications Wiline Pangle Part II: Insecurities Chapter 4: Methodological and Positional Considerations of Crisis Field Research: The Karen Struggle against the Military Regimes of Burma Jack Fong Chapter 5: Building Trust, Enhancing Research: Carrying out Fieldwork in Namibia Mónica Ruiz-Casares Chapter 6: Conducting Cross-Cultural Research on Turtles in Bolivia Implications for Quantitative Data Collection Kristen Conway-Gomez Part III: Encumbrances Chapter 7: "You can't bring a child in here, this is a place where people come to do serious research work!": Negotiating Lone Motherhood And Fieldworker Identities Cecily Jones Chapter 8: Serendipitous Treasures: Rethinking Archival Research in the 21st Century Rebecca Sammel Chapter 9: Negotiating the Politics of Conducting Research On Widows in India Shweta Majumdar Part IV: Crossroads Chapter 10: Performative Approaches to Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Research Virginie Magnat Chapter 11: Counter-Movement: Reconfiguring the Location of Research with Researchers from Abroad Sami Hanna and Mustafa Sever Chapter 12: Back from the Field: Positionality, Methodology, and Practice Lise-Hélène Smith and Anjana Narayan Bibliography Index About the Contributors.