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Yallingup, Western Australia
Email:
viti@bearfruit.com.au
Website:
http://www.bearfruit.com.au
Removed my shoes before entering the office and was introduced to all three staff
members.
Was the recipient of a greeting and meal significant with a first time visitor or client?
Staff members commented on the importance of me enjoying the interview with their
employer.
When we moved into participant’s office I was greeted again in Maori and when I replied
in English the participant inquired if I spoke Maori by which I replied no.
So our remaining dialogue was carried out in English.
Established an agreement to profile the participant and her business on my former
afascinatingjourney.com website.
At completion of the interview the participant asked me an unexpected question.
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So what have you learnt from all your fieldwork?
My spontaneous response was, ‘that the ordinary is quite extraordinary’.
At the completion of the interview I was invited to join her and her staff for lunch and they
were interested in how the interview went.
Staff member drove me back to my accommodation and I reflected upon the benchmark
this business had established and were rewarded for.
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Knudson & Suzuki (1992) cited in Ife, 2006, p.103 provides an insight into culture which has
become a feature of this report.
“
Indigenous
People
from all over the world have continually emphasised the
importance of other forms of ‘knowledge’ – spirituality, magic, beauty, nature,
storytelling and knowledge of the land (Knudston & Suzuki 1992) – and this
resonated with the initiative experience of many non-indigenous people as well, who
realise that music, art, theatre, poetry, mountains, oceans, forests, animals, dance,
love, laughter, games and local folklore can be profound conveyors of ‘knowledge’, in
ways that defy digital logic.”
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More direct quotes from my 2003 – 2005 Australasian fieldwork appear in the table below.
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Authors Journal No. 3 December (2003 –May 2004) Australasian fieldwork
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Ife, (2006), p.103