This article concerns about student fieldworkers in villages and cities. The chapter compares the research and field experiences of students studying in rural villages compared to those in cities.
Students doing fieldwork in cities have greater difficulty identifying a community. Village fieldworkers had more difficult time adjusting to thr culture. Gmelch and Gmelch give example of two places concerning fieldwork. Students from Ireland and Barbados were placed with local families, one student to a community.
Half of the worlds' population now lives in urban areas, about 70 percent will be city dwellers. Students abroad feel anxious and doubt their ability to make freinds in new settings. The students are intimidated by requirements of doing fieldwork. The days when cultural anthropologists studied small-scale societies are gone.
While field school students once did traditional ''people and places'' village ethnopography today they practice anthropology. One measure of adjustment in the field is culture shock anxiety and feelings of confusion people experience when forced to operate in new culture environment.
Finally the field school setting-village versus city does influence the conduct of fieldwork and the character of student ethnographers ' experiences. Students who do fieldwork in the city have greater difficulty than those in villages identifying a community and locating informants. Those students' personal adjustment is easier in the city . Whether in village or city all students benifited from living in and conducting researches in another culture.
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