Noun
Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. Margaret Mead
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies. Stephen Jay Gould
Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago. Richard Leakey
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on. Lily King
Boas championed the use of exhaustive research, fieldwork, and strict scientific guidelines in folklore scholarship. Source: Internet
Also emerging in multi-sited ethnography are greater interdisciplinary approaches to fieldwork, bringing in methods from cultural studies, media studies, science and technology studies, and others. Source: Internet