Empirical Anthropology. Issues of Academic Friends and Friends in the Field, ed. Georg Pfeffer & Nibedita Nath. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, pp.205-215.

The author is Jürgen Wolff, my husband, who had visited me in the field several times while I was doing fieldwork there. G.Pfeffer, my supervisor, had developed the idea of editing a volume highlighting also those challenging, disagreeable, emotional, irritating and very practical aspects of survival, despair and suffering in the field. Doing fieldwork is about „blood, sweat, and tears“, he used to say, but only little has been published about this aspect. Obviously my husband, the researcher‘s spouse, had to suffer a lot from me, the Anthropologist, in the field (as I learnt when reading his text). This is his story of survival in the field.