It is sometimes difficult to find the right method of studying people in a place, especially when you are trying to collect something sensitive, intagible, and variable as cultural values. The best way to start, however, is to understand what tool kit or palette of techniques are available, and what works best in diverse fieldwork situation.
As researchers, we have had to decide what would work best in a range of settings and have adapted our methods to fit the specific site and problem.
Sometimes it was as simple as turning what was to be a focus group into a group interview when surrounded by a group of excited pre- teens or reworking an interview into a transect walk or bicycle ride with people on the move or exercising in a park.
The everyday circumstances of fieldwork make it necessary to be flexible and often creative when faced with problems such as people who don't want to talk.
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