7.3 Funding

As with all research, doing fieldwork requires money to cover such things as travel related costs, insurance, reliable recording equipment, living expenses in the host community (housing and goods), payment for informants and, of course, one's own salary. If lucky a university may have internal mechanisms to fund a fieldworker's research, but more often than not he/she will need funding from external agencies. These agencies look for projects that are logistically well planned, have community support, show promise for producing community-helping results and have substantial academic merit (cf. Crowley 2007: 69-70; Bowern 2008: 171-177).

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