From Ethbotcons@aol.com Sun Aug 1 19:45:33 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id TAA28802 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 19:45:17 -0700 From: Ethbotcons@aol.com Received: from imo29.mx.aol.com (imo29.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.73]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.06) with ESMTP id TAA03900 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 19:45:16 -0700 Received: from Ethbotcons@aol.com by imo29.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v22.4.) id qQDNa06267 (15548); Sun, 1 Aug 1999 22:44:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <93c9c062.24d66010@aol.com> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 22:44:32 EDT Subject: Re: Compassionate, cooperative fieldwork To: Claire Hope Cummings CC: indknow@u.washington.edu, sophia_cleland@hotmail.com, akha@loxinfo.co.th, mknelson@igc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL NetMail version 2.0 Dear Ms. Cummings: Your concerns are appreciated, and have been addressed more deeply than you might suspect, given the critical nature of your questions. In my initial email I chose not to mention that I am an adopted child of the community in which I work, as I consider this a personal, rather than professional, detail. I also chose not to mention that none of the "foreign"/expat researchers are compensated for their time in the field, as this too, is a personal choice. Yet perhaps these pieces of information would give you a better idea of how I, ECO-SEA and our affiliates, operate in the field. Jeanine Pfeiffer Executive Director, ECO-SEA .