This chapter explores some behind-the-scenes aspects of fieldwork (team
viewer approach). Presentation of the material serves as a textual break between the
conclusion and the first ten chapters that examine facets of agricultural labor and
drug/alcohol use. The chapter narrates a few situations experienced by the fieldworker,
where encounter with law enforcement took place for whatever reason. A big idea in the
later portions of the chapter is the strategy basic to ethnography of spending engaged
time with “research subjects”.
Keywords: Climb up, country lanes, deep alley, encounter, endearment,
fieldworker, highway travel, lawful encounter, migrant travel, motor vehicle,
performance stressor, possession, public relations, rapport, reflection, signals,
story-telling, travel time, undercover, Work-Travel Study.
