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Getting out is less problematic than getting in or staying in – if the worst comes to the worst, researchers can just call a stop to their observations and leave. They may also find that loyalty to the group they have been studying makes it difficult to disclose everything they have learnt for fear of harming members of the group (e.g., exposure of the activities of criminal groups could lead to prosecution or reprisals against the researcher), even though such omissions will reduce the validity of the data.

The anthropologist Peggy Froerer with her research assistant, Shantilal, a young man from the Kolga village in the state of Chhattisgarh, central India. He assisted her in transcribing her field notes from Chetriboli or Kurukh into Hindi. (© Peggy Froerer)