Getting to do the fieldwork is one of the most amazing things that a person can do in their life. Because it's not a simple travelling and taking pictures, it's not typical holidays... it's becoming a part of a community, it's being in some amazing place with unknown people and different environment! I bet social anthropologists absolutely love the time they spend in the field. And even though doing fieldwork sounds very 'easy' it unfortuanetly includes lots of preparations and then post-actions. Most of all, social anthropologists need to learn the language of the community they want to study, which if we think about it might be quite a difficult task, especially if someone wants to work for example on Asian societies. In my opinion, let's say Japanese ot Chinese don't seem to be very easily acquirable languages... Anyway, I am trying to make my point here! Social anthropologists sometimes spend even a few years with the communities they study, therefore I think it is crucial that non-anthropologists appreciate the wonderful work of social anthropologists! Their ethnographies are full of experiences and real data!

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